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Camelot Street Estate flanking the Old Kent Road, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 8: Housing' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 Sep. This image appeared on p. 137. These high-rise blocks were built using the Anglian prefabricated system.
Children having a discussion on the Pepys Estate, Deptford, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 8: Housing' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 Sep.
Churchill Gardens Estate, Pimlico, London: Chaucer House and the heat-accumulator seen from across the Thames
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NOTES: This, the largest housing scheme by Westminster City Council, was built in four sections between 1946 and 1962. The heat-accumulator was used to store the hot water brought in a tunnel below the river from Battersea power station for the district heating scheme.
Design for an underground railway and bus station for London Transport, Newbury Park, Redbridge, London
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NOTES: This drawing was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1947 (no. 1079).
German Pavilion, Barcelona: courtyard with sculpture 'Alba' by Georg Kolbe
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NOTES: The German Pavilion was originally built for the International Exhibition 1929. It was rebuilt in 1986.
Green Lanes Junior School, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire: a classroom
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NOTES: C. H. Aslin was County Architect for Hertfordshire from 1945 to 1958 and a pioneer of twentieth century prefabricated design. This school, part of the Hertfordshire County Council school-building programme which he headed, was constructed using the unit planning system.
Peter Robinson, 65 Strand, London
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NOTES: This store was the first post-war building in England to make large scale use of bronze cladding. It was demolished in the 1990s
57 Ham Street, Ham Common, London: the garden facade
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NOTES: This house, designed by the architect for himself and his family, is one of a pair with very similar elevations but different plans.
Flats in Holford Square, Finsbury, London: view showing the triaxial plan form of the spiral staircase of Bevin Court
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NOTES: Tecton were responsible for the masterplan, which was given Town Planning consent in 1948, and Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin were responsible for its development and execution. See RIBA141108 for negative verson of this image.
Finsbury Health Centre, Pine Street, Finsbury, London, seen in its urban context
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NOTES: The Finsbury Health Centre was an attempt to rationalize the borough's health provision by providing on a single site a wide range of facilities, the needs of some of which could alter radically with time. Tecton's masterly solution to the complex circulation patterns such a multi-functional building entailed was hailed by architectural and medical critics alike as a prototype and a radical break with traditional health provision. The building is Grade I listed and was partly restored in the 1990s.