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Tower Blocks UK: Birmingham City Ladywood redevelopment area u205, u208, u212, u213/216; u215; u235/242; u242/264, m12-36.jpg
Multi-storey block details: 205: five 6-storey blocks containing 152 dwellings; one 9-storey block containing 34 dwellings; 208: three 8-storey blocks containing 148 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 36 dwellings; 212: one 12-storey block containing 67 dwellings; 213/216: two 16-storey blocks containing 186 dwellings; 215: one 16-storey block containing 93 dwellings; 235/242: two 20-storey blocks containing 232 dwellings; 242/264: one 20-storey block containing 80 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): 205: Ploughfield House; Kenchester House; Hereford House; Blakemere House; Allensmoor House; Blythe House; 208: Nightingale House; Elizabeth Fry House; Colette House; Cavell House; 212: Lincoln Tower; 213/216: Wells Tower; Truro Tower; 215: Brecon Tower; 235/242: Salisbury Tower; Canterbury Tower; 242/264: Durham Tower; Image detail: View of Ladywood redevelopment area looking Southeast from Ladywood Middleway Original Commissioning Authority: Birmingham County Borough Council; Image taken: 1981;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 heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when ...
Tower Blocks UK: Birmingham City Ladywood redevelopment area u205, u208, u212, u213/216; u215; u235/242; u242/264, m12-36.jpg
Multi-storey block details: 205: five 6-storey blocks containing 152 dwellings; one 9-storey block containing 34 dwellings; 208: three 8-storey blocks containing 148 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 36 dwellings; 212: one 12-storey block containing 67 dwellings; 213/216: two 16-storey blocks containing 186 dwellings; 215: one 16-storey block containing 93 dwellings; 235/242: two 20-storey blocks containing 232 dwellings; 242/264: one 20-storey block containing 80 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): 205: Ploughfield House; Kenchester House; Hereford House; Blakemere House; Allensmoor House; Blythe House; 208: Nightingale House; Elizabeth Fry House; Colette House; Cavell House; 212: Lincoln Tower; 213/216: Wells Tower; Truro Tower; 215: Brecon Tower; 235/242: Salisbury Tower; Canterbury Tower; 242/264: Durham Tower; Image detail: View of Ladywood redevelopment area looking Southeast from Ladywood Middleway Original Commissioning Authority: Birmingham County Borough Council; Image taken: 1981;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 heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when ...
Tower Blocks UK: Birmingham City Ladywood redevelopment area u205, u208, u212, u213/216; u215; u235/242; u242/264, m12-36.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-05-17
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English
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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