Tag: concrete
68. Clerkenwell Corner Sites
The Salads visited Groupwork / Amin Taha's Islington 'corner sites' in January 2020.
59. Thamesmead
The intention was for Thamesmead to be urban from the start, city-like and a new town on the marshes of the existing Woolwich Arsenal. The masterplan was a reaction against ‘Garden Cities’ the half rural pretty towns, and was envisioned to be an urban city within a garden.
57. Bethnal Green Mission Church
Stefanie and Tom of GRR Architects showed us around the mixed use community/housing project Bethnal Green Mission Church. Clad in brick and precast concrete, the ‘monk-bond’ of the brick was designed to be a ‘weave’ to symbolise the weaving of surrounding communities into this building.
53. Dawson Heights
We were privileged to meet the female architect Kate MacIntosh who designed the social housing scheme Dawson’s Heights in the late 60s when she worked at Southwark Council.
51. Camden Modernist Housing
Five architects/ engineers including Neave Brown formed a housing association to address the issues of high rise housing in the borough and propose a better model. They borrowed a 100% loan from Camden Council and built these five houses. The design conformed to local housing standards.
45. Modernist Oxford
SaLADS were fortunate to have special access to a number of Oxford Modernist masterpieces including Arne Jacobsen's St Catherine's college, and Powell and Moya's Wolfson College both listed and with award winning recent extensions.
34. The Switch Room
The SaLADS visited the Herzog & De Meuron-designed new wing of the Tate Modern.
29. Camden Housing
Berwyn Kinsey, architectural historian and enthusiast led an architectural walking tour through Camden Council's affordable housing.
19. The National Theatre
This visit started with a talk by Barnabas Calder on architect Sir Denys Lasdun and the design of the National Theatre. Lasdun was appointed to design the building in 1963 with no previous experience in theatre design.
14. Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians, which was founded in 1518 made a bold leap when choosing the daring Denys Lasdun to design their building.
5. The Barbican
Construction started in the 1970s and the buildings in British Brutalist style were designed by Architects Chamberlain, Powell and Bon.