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I watched the second half of the first programme in the BBC4 documentary series (and regretted missing the first half, because it was fantastic). The RIBA exhibition is on the list, just after Two Temple Place (qv).
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The BBC4 collections are very good. The London collection is still online. Particularly enjoyable stuff from the sixties.
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lets see if they remind us of those bleak tower blocks 'thrown-up' all over OUR major cities. yes in many areas replacing 'slum housing' but in some cases designed slum housing of the future. i know there are other 'issues' involved but if these 'designers/architects' had to live in their own worst 'off-spring' then perhaps a brighter future would behold all...not just the "chosen few"?
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Correct me if am wrong, but as far as I recall it was not the likes of Rogers, Foster, Grimshaw, Hopkins and Farrell who were designing tower blocks in the 1950s and 1960s.
Even so, the likes of the Trellick and Balfron Towers, and the Barbican, show that tower blocks are not necessarily "slum" housing. To take another example, many of the original tenants at Park Hill in Sheffield loved their new flats. But expectations change, and poor maintenance is the bane of these structures. |
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Oh, to correct myself, but perhaps an exception: Farrell and Grimshaw designed the 11 storey tower at 125 Park Road, and then lived in it themselves.
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"the Brits who built the modern world". seems the RIBA has, perhaps, selective memory. or does the modern world not include the bad, the ugly as well as the good?
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