Tag: modernism
68. Clerkenwell Corner Sites
The Salads visited Groupwork / Amin Taha's Islington 'corner sites' in January 2020.
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.
62. Heritage Croydon
Croydon became a focus for post-war development in the 1960s. The masterplan was designed to be commercially ambitious where the Croydon Cooperation Act 1955 promoted building infrastructure and office development. This complimented a government policy that aimed to decentralise office development onto the periphery of the city.
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.
54. Hopkins House
This extraordinary building was designed by Patty Hopkins together with her husband Michael in 1976 when she was on maternity leave. We were shown around the house by Abigail their daughter who explained over time how the spaces changed as the family grew up.
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.
43. University of East Anglia Masterplan
At the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Peter Bilverstone the Estates manager gave us a very different take on an architectural tour - from the perspective of someone who looks after buildings for years after the Architect has taken their photographs and left.
42. City of London Tour
When the task of rebuilding the Square Mile after the devastation of World War Two was undertaken, the house style of British corporate architecture was modernism. The new City was to be constructed according to principles borrowed from Scandinavia and the Bauhaus, with buildings fashioned after the works of le Corbusier and van der Rohe.
35. Brutalist Bloomsbury
On this walking tour we discovered a much lambasted building by the prolific but under-rated Richard Seifert, a pair of late and controversial works by Sir Denys Lasdun, Patrick Hodgkinson's acclaimed mega-structure the Brunswick Centre, and host of lesser known gems including an elegant 1960s theatre, a dynamic and remarkably preserved hotel in the international style and an uncompromising concrete chemistry laboratory.
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.
8. The Homewood, Esher
The SaLADS took a trip to The Homewood, a modernist house in Esher, Surrey. Designed by architect Patrick Gwynne for his parents, The Homewood was given by Gwynne to the National Trust in 1999.