Sunday, 21 October 2018

Columbia Point / SE16

Architects: Colin Lucas, Philip Bottomley et al. at the LCC/GLC, c.1964. One of two high-rise point blocks erected on the Canada Estate, along with several groups of four-storey maisonette blocks. Surrey Quays, London Borough of Southwark.

Saturday, 20 October 2018

Niagara Court / Canada Estate

Architects: Colin Lucas, Philip Bottomley et al. at the LCC/GLC, c.1964. Maisonette cluster block, part of the Canada Estate built on the site of the disused Brandram's Works, commissioned by Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council in 1962. Now London Borough of Southwark. 

Friday, 19 October 2018

Scotia Court / stairs

Architects: Colin Lucas, Philip Bottomley et al. at the LCC/GLC, c.1964. Upper-level access for one of the four-storey cluster blocks. Part of the Canada Estate, built on the site of the disused Brandram's Works, commissioned by Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council in 1962. Now London Borough of Southwark. 

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Gate / St James's Park

Architect: Sir Aston Webb, c.1901-11. Portland stone piers with ball-finials, iron ornamental gates "of Louis XV/Louis XVI derivation" [info. source: Grade II listing]. City of Westminster, London. 

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Sparkford House / SW11

Architects: Colin Lucas, Philip Bottomley et al. at the LCC/GLC, c.1963. Each of the point block's twenty-one floors accommodates four flats. In the foreground, one of six four-storey ‘cluster blocks’ of maisonettes, also part of the Somerset Estate. Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.
Philip Bottomley London public architect: The Canada, Somerset, and Westbury estates vimeo.com/274798040

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Chelsea Waterfront / Oct 2018

Architect: Farrells, for Hutchison Property Group. Work-in-progress on a 37-storey residential tower, part of the redevelopment of the former Lots Road Power Station. Heading upstream is motor tug Redoubt.

Monday, 15 October 2018

Imperial Wharf / Chelsea Harbour

• Left: Broadway Malyan Architects, c.2003.
• Right: Moxley Jenner & Partners, 1987.
Residential in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, although photographed across Thames in Wandsworth. 

Sunday, 14 October 2018

St Mary's / Battersea

Architect: Joseph Dixon, completed 1777. Georgian church with tetrastyle portico, quoined tower and octagonal spire. The only Grade I listed church in the London Borough of Wandsworth. 

Saturday, 13 October 2018

The Stag / II

Victorian public house c.1861. Currently on Wandsworth's Register of Assets of Community Value. Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Macey House / SW11


Architects: Seiferts, c.1972, using Lytag® structural lightweight concrete and precast cladding panels. Viewed along Orbell St., Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth. 
Macey House / II
21 storeys, 100 dwellings. Surrey Lane Estate, Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

LSO / St Luke's

Architects: John James and Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1733. The tower and obelisk spire are by Hawksmoor. Now used as a concert hall by the London Symphony Orchestra. Grade I listed. London Borough of Islington.

Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Crondall Court / 45-81

4-storey apartment block built c.1964 as part of the St John's Estate. Commissioned by Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council. 45-81 Buckland St., London Borough of Hackney.

Monday, 8 October 2018

Mono Duo / N1

David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects, 2018. Two brick-clad residential towers, part of the Colville Estate regeneration project. Development known as Hoxton Press. Seen across Shoreditch Park, London Borough of Hackney.

Sunday, 7 October 2018

St John's / Hoxton

Architect: Francis Edwards, 1826. Showing the Greek Revival tower with Doric and Ionic tiers. Listed Grade II*. London Borough of Hackney. 

Saturday, 6 October 2018

The Bevenden / N1

Crest Nicholson residential development, c.2015, on the site of a former telecoms switch centre. Between Bevenden St and New North Rd., London Borough of Hackney.

Friday, 5 October 2018

Crondall Court / N1

Residential tower of 11 storeys built c.1964 as part of the St John's Estate. The H-plan block, consisting of 44 dwellings, was commissioned by Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council [info. source: Historic England PastScape]. 1-44 Buckland St., London Borough of Hackney. 

Thursday, 4 October 2018

'Two Fifty One' / SE1

Architects: Allies & Morrison, 2017. 41-storey residential tower comprising 335 apartments. Viewed from the Elephant & Castle. London Borough of Southwark.

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Time Flies / W8

Architect: A.Y.Nutt, 1909. Clock turret, shelter and memorial fountain, the gift of a Mrs. Galpin. West side of The Broad Walk, nr. the Diana Playground, Kensington Gardens, RBKC, London.

Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Gloucester Arms / SW7

Late-C19 public house. Grade II listing mentions the paired Corinthian pilasters. Gloucester Road, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.

Monday, 1 October 2018

Orangery / Kensington Palace

Architect: Nicholas Hawksmoor or John Vanbrugh or, according to the the Grade I listing, Christopher Wren, 1705. Designed for Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch. Originally known as the Green House. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 

Kynance Mews / Arch

East archway to Kynance Mews, c.1860, Grade II listed. Stucco with vermiculated voussoirs. Gloucester Road, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.