A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
SC_1141958.png,Cornhill-Stockethill, Section I,Cairncry Road; Brierfield Terrace
Multi-storey block details: one 17-storey block containing 100 dwellings; two 16-storey blocks containing 188 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Cornhill Court SC8; Rosehill Court SC9; Cairncry Court SC10 ; Image detail: View of Cornhill-Stockethill Section I (in background) and Cornhill-Stockethill Section VII in foreground Original Commissioning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Council; Construction period (from/to): 1966 1967 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.
SC_1141958.png,Cornhill-Stockethill, Section I,Cairncry Road; Brierfield Terrace
Multi-storey block details: one 17-storey block containing 100 dwellings; two 16-storey blocks containing 188 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Cornhill Court SC8; Rosehill Court SC9; Cairncry Court SC10 ; Image detail: View of Cornhill-Stockethill Section I (in background) and Cornhill-Stockethill Section VII in foreground Original Commissioning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Council; Construction period (from/to): 1966 1967 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.
SC_1141958.png,Cornhill-Stockethill, Section I,Cairncry Road; Brierfield Terrace
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles / Breen, Kat
2019-11-14
Image
Electronic Resource
English
public housing , tower block , prefabrication , multi-storey block , neighbourhood unit , housing scheme , housing estate , industrialised building , tenement block , residential district , walk-up flats , low-rise housing , modern architecture , modernism , postmodernism , landscape architecture , deck access , Brutalism , council housing , cluster , megastructure , Radburn planning , concrete construction , system building , large panel concrete construction , vernacular , Row housing , Terraced housing , Patio housing , Slum clearance , Redevelopment , Housing
DDC:
720
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