Tag: housing
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'.
65. Camden infill housing
Both projects came under the the Camden Investment Programme (CIP) which looked at strategies of how to improve the public realm of existing post-housing estates by providing new homes. Camden local authority identified sites across the borough.
64. Modernist Brighton
Salads visited on Brighton Pride weekend. We visited three schemes; Hove Town Hall, Parkgate Span housing and Embassy Court.
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.
49. South London Housing & The Ortus Building
Claire Bennie showed us around listed housing estates in Herne Hill from the 1930s private rented sector (PRS). Each flat has their own private garden and shared use of the communal gardens.
48. Walters Way
Walter Segal designed a system of timber framed building that allowed an person with little or no building experience to easily erect their own house.
30. Sarah Wigglesworth House & Office
This was a self build project embarked by architects Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till. The project is located at the end of a cul-de-sac adjacent to the railway line.
29. Camden Housing
Berwyn Kinsey, architectural historian and enthusiast led an architectural walking tour through Camden Council's affordable housing.
20. William Booth College
The Grade II listed towers over Denmark Hill station.
16. Kennington Walking Tour
Ellis Woodman led us on our first bespokely organised tour, showing us the architectural gems of Kennington and the Stockwell area.
9. Balfron Tower
Balfron Tower, Erno Goldfinger’s 27 storey counterpoint to his West London Trellick tower stands in the shadow of Canary Wharf.
5. The Barbican
Construction started in the 1970s and the buildings in British Brutalist style were designed by Architects Chamberlain, Powell and Bon.