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Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Pimlico (Section I, Blocks 1, Block 5, Blocks 2 and 6 and Block 7) and Churchill Gardens (Section II, Contract 1, Block 20; Section II, Extension, Block 17; Section II, Extension, Block 21; Section II, Contract 1, Further Extension, Block 18; Section II, Contract 2; Section III, Blocks 33, 34 and 38; Section III, Block 35), l52-20.jpg
Multi-storey block details: P 1: one 9-storey block containing 104 dwellings; P 5: one 9-storey block containing 97 dwellings; P 2, 6: two 9-storey blocks containing 169 dwellings; P 7: one 7-storey block containing 39 dwellings; CG II-1E-17: one 10-storey block containing 80 dwellings; CG II-1-20: one 10-storey block containing 60 dwellings; CG II-1E-17: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CG II-1E-18: one 10-storey block containing 80 dwellings; CG II-2: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; two 10-storey blocks containing 146 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 56 dwellings; CG III, 33-34 and 38: two 10-storey blocks containing 116 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 48 dwellings; CG III, 35: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): P 1: Chaucer House; 5: Shelley House; P 2, 6: Keats House; Coleridge House; CG II-1-20: Sullivan House; CG II-1E-17: Gilbert House; CG II-1E-21: Sheraton House; CG II-1-18: Chippendale House; CG II-2: Wilkins House; Ripley House; Nash House; Lutyens House; CG III, 33-34 and 38: Littleton House; Branwell House; Blackstone House; CG III, 35: Anson House; Image detail: General view of Churchill Gardens Estate Original Commissioning Authority: Westminster City Council; Image taken: 1988;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK ...
Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Pimlico (Section I, Blocks 1, Block 5, Blocks 2 and 6 and Block 7) and Churchill Gardens (Section II, Contract 1, Block 20; Section II, Extension, Block 17; Section II, Extension, Block 21; Section II, Contract 1, Further Extension, Block 18; Section II, Contract 2; Section III, Blocks 33, 34 and 38; Section III, Block 35), l52-20.jpg
Multi-storey block details: P 1: one 9-storey block containing 104 dwellings; P 5: one 9-storey block containing 97 dwellings; P 2, 6: two 9-storey blocks containing 169 dwellings; P 7: one 7-storey block containing 39 dwellings; CG II-1E-17: one 10-storey block containing 80 dwellings; CG II-1-20: one 10-storey block containing 60 dwellings; CG II-1E-17: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CG II-1E-18: one 10-storey block containing 80 dwellings; CG II-2: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; two 10-storey blocks containing 146 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 56 dwellings; CG III, 33-34 and 38: two 10-storey blocks containing 116 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 48 dwellings; CG III, 35: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): P 1: Chaucer House; 5: Shelley House; P 2, 6: Keats House; Coleridge House; CG II-1-20: Sullivan House; CG II-1E-17: Gilbert House; CG II-1E-21: Sheraton House; CG II-1-18: Chippendale House; CG II-2: Wilkins House; Ripley House; Nash House; Lutyens House; CG III, 33-34 and 38: Littleton House; Branwell House; Blackstone House; CG III, 35: Anson House; Image detail: General view of Churchill Gardens Estate Original Commissioning Authority: Westminster City Council; Image taken: 1988;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK ...
Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Pimlico (Section I, Blocks 1, Block 5, Blocks 2 and 6 and Block 7) and Churchill Gardens (Section II, Contract 1, Block 20; Section II, Extension, Block 17; Section II, Extension, Block 21; Section II, Contract 1, Further Extension, Block 18; Section II, Contract 2; Section III, Blocks 33, 34 and 38; Section III, Block 35), l52-20.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-05-17
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Architecture Building and Planning::Housing , walk-up flats , modernism , Zeilenbau , sectional planning , postmodernism , public housing , modern architecture , mass housing , prefabrication , multi-storey block , neighbourhood unit , low-rise housing , tenement block , residential district , tower block , housing scheme , enterprise housing , socialism , landscape architecture , Art Deco , industrialised building , slab block , housing estate
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