Tag: East London
67. Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall was set up in 1884 by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The Barnetts took a different approach to tackling the poverty of Whitechapel (as mapped by Charles Booth in 1880s) by bringing graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to live and learn amongst the community and use their education to help them 'become their best selves'.
63. Salmen House
This young practice was commissioned to design a new three bed rentable house for a private property developer. Situated in Plaistow, the house sits in a context of what used to be an affluent Victorian east London district with good transport links to London.
60. Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The foundry est.1570 is one of the country's oldest manufacturing companies. These buildings date from 1740 and are one of the only remaining examples of this typology of shop, house and factory behind.
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.
9. Balfron Tower
Balfron Tower, Erno Goldfinger’s 27 storey counterpoint to his West London Trellick tower stands in the shadow of Canary Wharf.