Hard landscaping

Astmoor Industrial Estate, Runcorn New Town, Cheshire: hard landscaping with the standard workshops in the background

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Roche, Fred Lloyd (1931-1992)

Municipal offices, Earl Street, Coventry: the west wing and ground floor exhibition room at dusk

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Coventry City Architects Department

Municipal offices, Earl Street, Coventry

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Coventry City Architects Department

Town centre, Burslem, Staffordshire: the car park area planted with white thorn

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Black, Sir Misha (1910-1977)

NOTES: Burslem was chosen in 1958 by the Civic Trust for its second piliot experiment in civic design (the first being Magdalen Street, Norwich) for the rehabilitation of a run down city centre. The consultant architect was Misha Black who produced a scheme in collaboration with Anthony Wilkinson, John Piggott, the City Architect and James Plant the Reconstruction Officer, for a planned pedestrian area to include, a car park, lavatory and a seating area.

Town centre, Burslem, Staffordshire: the garden area with seat shelter and demountable bandstand to the left

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Black, Sir Misha (1910-1977)

NOTES: Burslem was chosen in 1958 by the Civic Trust for its second piliot experiment in civic design (the first being Magdalen Street, Norwich) for the rehabilitation of a run down city centre. The consultant architect was Misha Black who produced a scheme in collaboration with Anthony Wilkinson, John Piggott, the City Architect and James Plant the Reconstruction Officer, for a planned pedestrian area to include, a car park, lavatory and a seating area.

Civic Centre, Princess Street, Plymouth, seen from the south-east with the council house on the left

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Jellicoe Ballantyne & Coleridge

Civic Centre, Princess Street, Plymouth

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Jellicoe Ballantyne & Coleridge

Halton Brook local centre (phase 1), Boston Avenue, Runcorn, Cheshire

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Roche, Fred Lloyd (1931-1992)

NOTES: This scheme comprised 28 flats and 4 shops.

Commonwealth Institute, Kensington, London: the entrance bridge over the ornamental lake

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Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners

NOTES: The Institute vacated these premises in 2002.

Montgomery Lines barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire: the Regimental Headquarters Building

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Building Design Partnership

NOTES: Built on the site of the former Stanhope Lines barracks, the Montgomery Lines are comprised of four barracks that were designed to house the 16th Parachute Brigade. They were officially opened in 1965.

Montgomery Lines barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire: detail of the different concrete finishes and hard landscaping in the junior ranks' club courtyard

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Building Design Partnership

NOTES: Built on the site of the former Stanhope Lines barracks, the Montgomery Lines are comprised of four barracks that were designed to house the 16th Parachute Brigade. They were officially opened in 1965.

Civic Centre, St Albans, Hertfordshire: the garden court with the health centre on the right and the law courts at the rear

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Fardell, Geoffrey Charles (1910-2001)

NOTES: Frederick Gibberd was the consultant planner for the civic centre, which comprised a city hall, law courts, municipal offices, police station, health centre, library and shops and offices. It was begun in 1957 and not completed until 1968.