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Utopia London has uploaded the full unedited interview with Neave Brown, at his home on Dunboyne Road Estate in 2008.
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For sale1 Bedroom BungalowSceaux Gardens EstateCamberwellLondon...
For sale
1 Bedroom Bungalow
Sceaux Gardens Estate
Camberwell
London SE5
£140,000
This has a whiff of estate redevelopment about it. Not least the price. Ok, it’s small and it needs work but when was the last time you saw anything but a garage for this price in London.
Situated on the Sceaux Gardens, this bungalow is one of two rows of single storey homes originally for the elderly. The estate which was one of the first post-war schemes on a grand scale, was constructed on land at the junction of Peckham Road and Southampton Way in the grounds of Camberwell House, a group of historic buildings then being used as council offices. The estate was named after the town of Sceaux, near Paris, with which Camberwell had links. The estate is now partly protected by the Sceaux Gardens Conservation Area, which centres on the 18th and 19th century buildings near Peckham Road.
Plans for the estate were approved by Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council in 1957 as a showcase development by the Metropolitan Borough Council’s architect’s department under the direction of F. O. Hayes. The architect in charge was H. P. Trenton and the consultant structural engineer was W. V. Zinn.
The plans for the estate included the construction of two 15 storey tower blocks surrounded by four 6 storey blocks of maisonettes and a single 6 storey block of one bedroom flats. The bungalows were built slightly later.
View the listing here.
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Readling List‘Drawings’ by William Edmonds/Nous VousA charming...
Readling List
‘Drawings’ by William Edmonds/Nous Vous
A charming collection of pencil drawings of the botanical plants in the Barbican conservatory. This soft back book is printed to the original scale of William Edmonds’ original sketchbook and is an edition of 200. Priced at £9, get your copy directly from the Nouv Vous website here.
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For sale2 Bedroom FlatKeeling HouseClaredale StreetLondon E2...
For sale
2 Bedroom Flat
Keeling House
Claredale Street
London E2
£600,000
Designed by Denys Lasdun in 1952, Keeling House was the architect’s attempt to move away from the slab block which were popular at the time. The four winged design and central stair lift was essentially the traditional Victorian two-storey houses stacked on top of each other, creating a vertical street.
The building ran into maintenance problems in the 1980s, and in 1992 Tower Hamlets closed the building unable to afford to fix it. It was granted Grade II* listed status in 1993, and sold to a private developer in 1999 who worked (with Lasdun) on the renovation into luxury apartments.
On the market is this two bedroom duplex, on the third floor
View the listing here.
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For sale2 Bedroom FlatWhitecliffsFolkestoneKent£200,000I only...
For sale
2 Bedroom Flat
Whitecliffs
Folkestone
Kent
£200,000
I only recently found out that Chamberlin Powell and Bon designed this residential building in Folkestone. Completed in 1972, the four storey stepped block (reminiscent of the ‘Camden style’ flats) of maisonettes and flats each has a balcony open to the sky, making the most of the sea views.
This first floor flat has two bedrooms at the back, the living room with floor to ceiling windows onto the balcony at the front, and the kitchen and bathroom (similar to Barbican flat layouts) in the middle. Internally there’s not much to shout about here, but there’s little of the original features left. I would be interested to see what the bigger flats (maisonettes) look like.
View the listing here.
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For sale3 Bedroom HouseCombe AvenueVanbrugh Park EstateLondon...
For sale
3 Bedroom House
Combe Avenue
Vanbrugh Park Estate
London SE3
£550,000
Chamberlin Powell and Bon were commissioned in 1958 to develop the Vanbrugh Park Estate, a site of seven acres. Made up of mixed level blocks, similar to their scheme the Golden Lane Estate, mostly consisting two-storey terraces of houses and mews flats, over garaging, built of concrete block. There’s also an eight storey tower of 64 flats, with a large central lobby and a sculptural lift shaft of pick-hammered concrete contrasting with large areas of glazing.
This particular flat retains some of the original features — I think under those ugly bricks you might find the original central fire in the living room. Price wise, the last house to sell in here was last August for £500,000.
View the listing here.
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For sale2 Bedroom BungalowKnights CroftNew Ash GreenLongfield,...
For sale
2 Bedroom Bungalow
Knights Croft
New Ash Green
Longfield, Kent
£275,000
I really need get myself to New Ash Green and have a proper look. The properties here are rising, but still very affordable compared to what you would pay for a Span house elsewhere.
Here’s an unusual house, and what’s known as a K1A. The 183 houses of Knights Croft were to be built in two phases. The building of the first phase of 80 houses began in July 1968. This neighbourhood introduced an element of standardisation to the arrangement of the houses from the K-Range, and incorporated one new design, this single storey KIA. At an early stage in the building of New Ash Green, the need for a single storey house at a lower price became apparent. A key element of the ‘concept ‘ of New Ash Green was to provide a framework that would encourage the development of a balanced community. SPAN and Lyons felt that provision had to be made for residents from an older age group.
View the listing here.
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Watch Ian Nairn on Pimlico1970Architecture critic and Pimlico...
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Ian Nairn on Pimlico
1970
Architecture critic and Pimlico resident Ian Nairn, walks about the place talking awkwardly to residents of Churchill Gardens by Powell and Moya and Lillington Gardens by Darbourne and Darke.
It includes some great footage of the interior of one of the flats in Churchill Gardens. I think I dissed the Balfron Tower flat that was taken over by the National Trust a couple of years ago, and kitted out by Wayne Hemingway for looking too cliché 60s — but actually…
Watch it on the BFI website here.
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What’s onExhibitionLiam Gillick — Béton25 June – 16 October...
What’s on
Exhibition
Liam Gillick — Béton
25 June – 16 October 2016
Kunsthalle Wien
1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1
Austria
Contemporary artists explore the legacy of Béton brut.
Artists
Kasper Akhøj, Heba Amin, Monica Bonvicini, Mark Boyle, Andreas Bunte, Tom Burr, Thomas Demand, Werner Feiersinger, Karsten Födinger, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Annette Kelm, Hubert Kiecol, Jakob Kolding, Miki Kratsman, Susanne Kriemann, David Maljković, Jumana Manna, Ingrid Martens, Isa Melsheimer, Olaf Metzel, Maximilian Pramatarov, Heidi Specker, Ron Terada, Tercerunquinto, Sofie Thorsen, Klaus Weber, Tobias Zielony
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Buy this!Modernist EstatesIn the London Borough of CamdenGuide...
Buy this!
Modernist Estates
In the London Borough of Camden
Guide and Map
£4.80
I’ve designed and produced this pocket size map. The London Borough of Camden is home to some of the most exciting and avant-garde post-war housing schemes in the country. Sydney Cook, borough architect between 1965–73, gained a reputation as a leader in imaginative low-rise, high-density and high-quality developments. Camden now has the highest number of Listed post-war housing estates of any borough. This pocket guide takes you through some of its most notable schemes.
Buy it from my Things You Can Buy website.
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For sale2 Bedroom flatArlington HouseMargate£115,000A two...
For sale
2 Bedroom flat
Arlington House
Margate
£115,000
A two bedroom flat on the top floor of Arlington Court in Margate. Woo hoo!
Designed by Russell Diplock and Associates, developed by Bernard Sunley Trust and built by contractors Bernard Sunley and Sons, the Arlington Square site is composed of Arlington House an18 storey, 142 apartment building, Arlington Square shopping piazza, and shops on All Saints Avenue and Marine Terrace with extensive parking for 500 vehicles and related petrol filing and taxi rank facilities.
A few things you should check: I think the lease might be short, there’s no mention of it on the particulars, but I think all leases in this block are until 2075.
This particular flat was bought only in March (for £113,500) so why are they selling it?
There’s been a continuing campaign with the leaseholders about the building’s maintenance and the future of what was the shopping arcade. The the Arlington House website.
Still interested? View the listing here.
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ShopHill Housing Abbott, Derek and Kimball PollitGranada,...
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Hill Housing
Abbott, Derek and Kimball Pollit
Granada, 1980
Hard Cover with dust jacket
26 x 26 cm, 308pp.
£40
SOLD
Right, so, I’ve been thinking about this for some time and if all goes well I’ll be listing some rare architecture books for sale that I have come across over the last few years. First up, here’s one of my favourites: Hill Housing by Derek Abbott and Kimball Pollit.
This comprehensive handbook deals will all aspects of building houses on sloes. As the wide-ranging historical introduction illustrates., this is not a new building type; but the rapid escalation of the cost of building land has recently seen an increase in hillside developments from California to Cote d’Azur.
Features many examples, including:
Peckarmans Wood, Dulwich; Branch Hill, Hampstead; Central Hill, Lambeth; Dawson’s Height, Dulwich; Byker Wall, Byker; Park Hill Sheffield; Halen, Berne
Book Condition: Very Good, minor edge wear to dust jacket and small tear.
NOW SOLD
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ShopCounty of London PlanForshaw, J H & Abercrombie,...
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County of London Plan
Forshaw, J H & Abercrombie, P
Published by Macmillan (1944)
31 x 25cm,187 pp.
Hardcover
Third printing
£35
SOLD
Large format hardback, no dust jacket. Decorative map endpapers. Illustrated with fold-out plans. General condition good/acceptable, some fading and browning on cover and marks on. Pages in good condition.
The County of London Plan was prepared for the London County Council in 1943 by Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (1879-1957) and John Henry Forshaw (1895-1973). Its main purpose was to point out the main directions of development and reconstruction of London, which in the past decades had faced big changes and irregular growth. It was prepared in anticipation of the end of World War II and the reconstruction after bomb damage and large movements of population.
SOLD
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ShopPioneers of Modern DesignNikolaus PevsnerPublished 1975 by...
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Pioneers of Modern Design
Nikolaus Pevsner
Published 1975 by Penguin Books
264pp
£8
SOLD
Moving from William Morris to Walter Gropius, taking in artists and architects from Britain, Europe and the USA, the author shows how the foundation of the best that remains today was laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed. First published in 1936 and twice revised since then, this survey explores a period of major, exciting transition away from stale Victorian historicism to the 20th century and our modern machine age.
NOW SOLD
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ShopGuide To Modern Buildings In London (1965–1975)by Charles...
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Guide To Modern Buildings In London (1965–1975)
by Charles McKean and Tom Jestico
First Edition, 1976 RARE
Published by Warehouse Publishing, 112pp
£50
An enthusiastic pocket book of Modern Buildings in London built between 1965 and 75.Includes lots of black and white photos with short descriptions, complete with maps and routes. Features many of the London Boroughs’ housing scheme — this is one of my favourite little books!
Condition: Ex library book so has sticker on spine and stamp inside, cover slightly faded and crease on back cover. Internal pages in good condition.
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For rent1 Bedroom FlatSpa Green EstateRosebery AvenueLondon...
For rent
1 Bedroom Flat
Spa Green Estate
Rosebery Avenue
London EC1
£400 per week
A one bedroom flat to rent in Grade II* listed Spa Green. located on the junction of St John’s Street and Rosebery Avenue in Clerkenwell. Designed by Tecton, the estate was completed in 1949. This particular property is in Sadler House, one of the three blocks. View the listing here.
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For sale1 Bedroom FlatRomney CourtHaverstock HillLondon...
For sale
1 Bedroom Flat
Romney Court
Haverstock Hill
London NW3
£499,950
A one bedroom flat on the raised ground floor of this Dinerman, Davison & Hillman designed block in Belsize Park. If you want to see the potential of what you could do with this flat, there’s a very nice refurbished one on Dezeen.
View the listing here.
(PS. What’s under that blanket?)
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ListenEncounter: Architecture and DesignEdward CullinanEven by...
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Encounter: Architecture and Design
Edward Cullinan
Even by the early 1960s there was, across Europe, a gentle move away from monumental brutalist architecture, toward a new philosophy that embraced the principles of the new, whilst using local materials or references in modern form. The result was a chunky, wholesome, and almost earthy modernity, which today is hard to detect as a distinct movement. Much of this aesthetic was embraced by Terrance Conran when he opened his first ‘Habitat’ store on the Kings Road in 1964 and was defined in 1967 by architecture and design journalist Mary Gilliatt as ‘Sturdy British’. Architect Edward Cullinan embraced these ideals right from the start of his career in the late 1950s. He still lives in the home he built for himself and his family in Camden Mews in 1962, which embraces these ideals. John Escolme visits Edward at home to discuss his architectural practice (run as a co-operative), and Judy Matheson finds out more about Cullinan’s initial and later work.
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For sale4 Bedroom duplexGlenkerry HousePoplarLondon...
For sale
4 Bedroom duplex
Glenkerry House
Poplar
London E14
£165,000
Why aren’t there more housing co-operatives? As a model it seems to make complete sense. The Glenkerry Housing Co-op has been running for 35 years. Flats are sold for owner-occupation at 50% the Valuation Office Agency’s valuation, it is not a shared ownership scheme — you pay half price and wholly own the lease. It is not a buy half / rent half payment scheme. What a great idea!
Their policy is that there should be a minimum occupancy of 3 to 4 people in a four bedroom flat. This maisonette is therefore ideal for a family, although not restricted to families.
As part of the co-op you are expected to join the Association and share the running of the it – both financially and administratively.
Glenkerry House, along with the Balfron Tower and Carradale House is part of the Brownfield Estate designed by Erno Goldfinger 1972–5, and is grade II listed. The building is fourteen storey block, comprising 75 flats and four maisonettes, laid out on the same principal as Balfron Tower, of an enclosed corridor serving three floors of flats — a west-facing one-bedroom flat overlooking the corridor and dual aspect two-bedroom flats above and below, each with an internal stair.
If you want to find out more about the co-op and download the application form you can do that on through the Glenkerry website here.
To find out more about the property for sale, view the listing here.
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JournalI wrote a piece for The Towner magazine. You can read it...
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