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Children's playgrounds
Churchill Gardens Estate, Pimlico, London: children's playground
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NOTES: This, the largest housing scheme by Westminster City Council, was built in four sections between 1954 and 1962.
Design for the Finsbury Estate, Finsbury, London: site plan featuring flatlets for elderly people, a library and a children's playground
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NOTES: The Finsbury Estate was also known as the Clarke's Close Estate RD project.
Design for Clarke's Close (the Finsbury Estate), Finsbury, London: perspective view showing housing blocks
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NOTES: The Finsbury Estate was also known as the Clarke's Close Estate RD project.
Design for Clarke's Close (the Finsbury Estate), Finsbury, London: scheme two site plan featuring flatlets for elderly people, a library and a children's playground
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NOTES: The Finsbury Estate was also known as the Clarke's Close Estate RD project.
Illustration demonstrating the importance of both indoor and outdoor recreation to adults and children alike
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NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning Your Neighbourhood: for home, for work, for play' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for the rebuilding of the heavily bombed London district of Shoreditch. The image shown here is page 7 of a bound presentation booklet for the project which was designed for the Air Ministry Directorate of Educational Services.
Site plan demonstrating the importance of placing open spaces and recreational facilities for all ages within a proposed residental development in Shoreditch, London
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NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning Your Neighbourhood: for home, for work, for play' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for the rebuilding of the heavily bombed London district of Shoreditch. The image shown here is page 15 of a bound presentation booklet for the project which was designed for the Air Ministry Directorate of Educational Services.
Eveline Lowe primary school, Marlborough Road, Camberwell, Southwark, London: children at play in the courtyard and sandpit
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NOTES: This Grade II listed school is an exemplar of the Plowden Report 'Children and their Primary Schools' published in 1967, which reviewed Primary education in England. The report was widely known for its praising of child-centred approaches to education. It was built using the CLASP method of construction.
