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Top Ten
Essential Architecture |
top ten London housing |
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For a more complete list, see the
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London Terraced House |
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architect
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location
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London |
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date
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1700-2000 |
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style
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various |
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construction
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various |
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House |
The terrace house is of outstanding importance to the historical
development of London. Many are individually of great architectural or
historical significance. Their construction in planned streets and squares on
the great private estates of central and inner London from the mid-seventeenth
century onwards has bequeathed a remarkable legacy which has dictated the
character and form of large areas of London. London terrace houses are a
valuable resource. Their conservation makes good economic and practice sense. |
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Housing in Camden
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A tall glazed open space connects, softens, and integrates the
formal-seeming regulated facades. |
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Alexandra Road Housing
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Alexandra Road may be seen as the culminating
effort by Neave Brown to apply the principles of the London terrace house to the
design of high-density public housing. The 5 rowhouses on Winscombe Street built
by Brown in 1967 for the architect and his friends were the first experiment
with the terrace type. The Camden Town project at Fleet Road begun about the
same time was a further application of the idea, now with over 50 dwellings,
arranged in parallel, terraced rows. Alexandra road represents the application
of the terraced theme on an enormous scale. Because Camden has three main rail
stations, there is much rail-frontage land in this part of the city. Alexandra
Road is built on one of these difficult frontage sites along the Euston line. |
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The Ark |
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