Built in 1898 by tea magnate and philanthropist Sir Thomas Lipton, the Alexandra Trust Dining Rooms provided cheap meals to the Old Street area’s working class and poor. The building, which appears to be in partial use, is now being scaffolded.
Category Archives: Architecture
Blazing English Sunshine
That’s truly a London sky. Gambier House in Islington.
Canary Wharf
Heart of Darkness. Thatcher’s Tombstone. Canary Wharf. More on flickr.
Random Architecture Shot: Barbican Estate
Dafoe House and Lauderdale Tower at the Barbican.
Avant-garde, Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets
Rising over Bethnal Green Road and Sclater Street, the Avant-garde is a 25 storey residential development promising up to three bedrooms. A one bedroom, one bath is listed on the site for £395K. Three bedrooms with two baths will set you back £750K. Floors 20-24 contain the “Altitude Apartments”, which “have a luxuriously enhanced sense …
London Feb 11, 2013
Not as snowy as the U.S. Northeast, but flurries in London.
Braithwaite House, Islington
Approved in 1963 by the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury and reclad in 2000, Braithwaite House is a 19 storey residential tower on Bunhill Row in Islington. The Kray twins, English gangsters, were arrested in their mother’s flat at Braithwaite House in May 1968.
The Fain, Livingston, Texas
While I was living in Texas, one of my favorite activities was jumping in my trusty Ford Focus and visiting the small towns strewn along the state highways. The Fain is in Cleveland Livingston, Texas on 59. More photos from Cleveland/Livingston on flickr.
Ingram House, Tower Hamlets
The 20-storey Ingram House is one of three towers along Daling Way in Bow. Can’t find much detail on Ingram House, Sandall House or Wilmer House.
Cranbrook Estate, Tower Hamlets
Designed by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin, the Cranbrook Estate was built between 1961 and 1968. It was Berthold Lubetkin’s last major project before his retirement. The estate has a mix of low-rise and tower block flats arrayed along Mace Street’s figure eight pattern. More details here and here.
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