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From ‘Tower of Terror’ to Brutalist Icon: A London Landmark Abides
By Saskia Solomon LONDON — When Barbara Heksel and her family moved into Trellick Tower in 1981, their friends thought they were crazy. Known for its uncompromising Brutalist design and the ...
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London’s ‘ugliest’ brutalist estates where flats cost £1,000,000
who arrived in the UK in the 1930s and went on to design some of London’s most enduring brutalist landmarks, including two early skyscrapers, both now Grade II*-listed – Trellick Tower in ...
The Architect’s Newspaper3d
Squire & Partners restores and expands London’s Brutalist landmark Space House
Squire & Partners removed layers of interventions to expose the original design of Space House, a historic Brutalist building ...
This Striking $10.1 Million Home in London Was Born From a Cold War Weapon Site
Once a torpedo testing site, a 1950s circular tank in London’s Royal Bushy Park has been transformed into Rotunda, a ...
Time Out10mon
The Brutalist buy-out: what happens when concrete becomes cool?
London’s brutalist estates have a lot going for them nowadays. Many fall well within the bounds of what we’d now call central London (like Trellick Tower near Notting Hill), or in areas that ...
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London’s ‘ugliest’ brutalist estates where flats cost £1,000,000
Built in a Brutalist style, Balfron Tower is an old council housing block in East London (Picture: Getty Images) Ladbroke Grove’s Trellick Tower’s imposing architecture can be quite polarising ...