London is busily transforming itself into a sci-fi city. Dubbed the “walkie talkie” because of its shape, which widens as the building rises, 20 Fenchurch Street will have a public viewing area and gardens on its upper floors. The 36 storey building will be completed in summer 2014.
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Park Hill Estate, Sheffield
Sheffield’s Park Hill Estate was built between 1957 and 1961, and in 1998 was given Grade II* listed building status. Part of the brutalist estate has been renovated by Urban Splash under a shared ownership scheme.
Arial, Bank of England
Arial, the spirit of the air, is one of the statues standing on the top of the Bank of England overlooking Prince Street. More details here.
Houston Sep 23, 2012
When the temperature dips below 8, I think of hot, hot Houston. That’s Memorial Hermann and the interchange of the 10 and the 8. More photos on flickr.
Great Arthur House, EC1
Part of the Corporation’s Grade II-listed Golden Lane Estate, which was completed in the mid-1960s. “Great Arthur House is the first residential tower block in London to be built that was over 50 metres in height, and indeed the first one to breach the 100 foot height limit in the City of London,” according to …
Institute of Education, Bloomsbury
Home to the Institute of Education, this building in Bloomsbury is an attempt to fit a brutalist design into a more traditional streetscape, according to skyscrapernews. The architect was Sir Denys Lasdun. It was completed in 1979.
49-50 Old Street, Islington
This unnamed building began life as the offices of the local council’s architecture corps, according to a business owner who leases space. Not a whole lot of information available. Anyone have insight?
Mary Ward House, Bloomsbury
From the Mary Ward House site: Mary Ward House is a fascinating Grade II listed building dating from 1898 and financed by the wealthy philanthropist Passmore Edwards. Mary Ward, the novelist and social reformer, was the inspiration behind the endeavour to provide a centre of training, care and entertainment for the less fortunate in society.
Haines House, Bloomsbury
An Art Deco speculative development that was mixed use: offices, flats and The Duke of York. Designed by Denis Edmund Harrington and completed in 1938. Atypical for Georgian Bloomsbury. Grade II listed. More details here. Discussion of its magic squares is here.
London Feb 3, 2013
A standard clump.
Sean Gallagher 