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I've seen it referred to as "New London Vernacular"
Even worse/better (subject to your views) its all the fault of Mr B Johnson
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/05/boris-johnsons-low-key-contribution-to-londons-new-housing/481149/
Rostopher | 08.07.16 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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Nu-warehouse.
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Post-faecal, non-domanesque.
Waterhouse | 08.07.16 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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Offline people storage.
Giles Williams | 08.07.16 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Surely a late example of brutalism?
SimonP | 08.07.16 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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East German Warehouse / Prison Block.
PC | 08.07.16 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Neo-Gdansk, reminds me of the vile blocks on the road from the port to the city centre, absolutely ghastly, who could take pride in living in such a hole. My bet is that blocks like these will be knocked down long before their build life expires.
Architecture Critic | 08.07.16 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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A12 Motorway View.
Incorporates vehicle pollution and associated traffic noise ideal for insomniacs. Each cramped apartment has a stunning balcony view of the rush hour tailbacks and local gridlock, with new pedestrian crossings to ensure safe transit to get the corresponding view from the other side at Bow roundabout if the sunset is in your eyes.
scrumpy | 08.07.16 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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Buytoletbrutal
langdon | 08.07.16 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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"Set on the peaceful banks of the River Lea... this new riverside quarter displays all the hallmarks of a covetable destination address."
langdon | 08.07.16 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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I prefer it to the endless glass towers with silly little balconies that everyone else builds - at least it offers a bit of variety.
Ed | 08.07.16 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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Bowhaus
kissenme | 08.07.16 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Bricksit (รก la bedsit, but other interpretations are available).
Michael T | 08.07.16 - 10:44 a.m. | #
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I don't dislike DG's picture; at least it's not all glass with weird sloping bits, nor does it have shrieking primary colours. It's almost 'Poor Man's Thirties'.
But the Mother-with-2-Children-and-3-Friends picture on the JTP page looks depressingly Soviet, even on a bright sunny day.
'Neo GLC' ?
Gerry | 08.07.16 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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Lego Duplex
Doug Robinson | 08.07.16 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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Chocolate Neapolitan Ice Cream Block
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Victory Mansions
David | 08.07.16 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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Isn't this the rear elevation? My Victorian semi looks pretty uninspiring from the back too.
But yes, the prevalence of boxy shapes is depressing. Cheaper to build with corresponding larger profit margin. In this case, the builder is a wholly owned subsidiary of a housing association which will be taking those profits to use for their social housing.
HoosierSands | Homepage | 08.07.16 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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The development has a central courtyard and four frontages. One overlooks the river, and will soon face an even larger housing development. The view in my photo overlooks the A12 (hence the lack of balconies).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.07.16 - 12:52 p.m. | #
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Could be worse - a couple of years back we seemed to go through a phase of any new building having to be adorned with jauntily-coloured panels all over the exterior.
Which means, of course, in 10 years' time they'll all be sunbleached and washed out, and look awful.
dg writes: On Stratford High Street, that's taken barely four years.
Moogal | 08.07.16 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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dg writes: On Stratford High Street, that's taken barely four years
Ah, Genesis Housing. The wonderful people responsible for this. Seriously, that organisation is clueless.
HoosierSands | Homepage | 08.07.16 - 7:46 p.m. | #
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Hope I'm not late with my name for that block -- UGLY !!!
Jo W | 08.07.16 - 8:29 p.m. | #
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tasteful_modernist_non-dom_investment
Bob L-S | 08.07.16 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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We call it the 'speckledy-brick' style, as they all seem to use similar pre-fabricated panels of apparent brickwork - 'the ultimate in rapid building techniques'. We've got a new regeneration scheme over here in South Acton, similar to what's going up in Bow, and it looks as if they've just run through the catalogue and ordered sheets of ready made brickwork in every unlikely combination of beige and purple, white and blue, yellow and red - 'to add interest to any project'.
ActonMan | 09.07.16 - 2:37 a.m. | #
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Nu-Berliner '70s - maybe?
Frank F | 09.07.16 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Lubyanka
Running Correspondent | 09.07.16 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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I was about to buy a place here, but backing on to the A12, even with triple glazing and next to the canal this pollution and slight rumble cannot be good.
Handily placed to 'Ikea town' where they are building another bridge to join this development.
Advantages, I could park the Bat. Alfred convinced me otherwise.
Bruce Wayne | 09.07.16 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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FYI most of the rented flat are backing on to the A12. The rest of the factories around this will seen be demolished for phase 2 and 3. Internally the court yard is quiet obviously facing on to the canal is nice in the summer if you are lucky enough to secure one of these flats, but a tesco and not much else around make it a little barren. They are banking on the shops etc in Ikea town making this a good place to live.
Bruce Wayne | 09.07.16 - 6:33 p.m. | #
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