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Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London Samuda's Wharf Site & Extension, Contract A and B, l44-31.jpg
Multi-storey block details: A: one 25-storey block containing 145 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 45 dwellings; B: three 6-storey blocks containing 117 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): A: Talia House; Kelson House; B: Reef House; Pinnace House; Hedley House; Image detail: View of Kelson House with corner of Hedley House on left Original Commissioning Authority: A: London County Council; B: Greater London 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 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 construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains details of the individual blocks built.
Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London Samuda's Wharf Site & Extension, Contract A and B, l44-31.jpg
Multi-storey block details: A: one 25-storey block containing 145 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 45 dwellings; B: three 6-storey blocks containing 117 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): A: Talia House; Kelson House; B: Reef House; Pinnace House; Hedley House; Image detail: View of Kelson House with corner of Hedley House on left Original Commissioning Authority: A: London County Council; B: Greater London 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 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 construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains details of the individual blocks built.
Tower Blocks UK: Tower Hamlets London Samuda's Wharf Site & Extension, Contract A and B, l44-31.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-05-17
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Electronic Resource
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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720
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