‘Thamesmead’. Semantically ... explore the brutalist London landmark’s new chapter Space House, a landmark of brutalist architecture by Richard Seifert & Partners in London’s Covent Garden, is back ...
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When the Thamesmead estate was built in the late-1960s, it was hailed as a futuristic “town for the 21st century”. Designed to ease London’s post-war housing crisis, the Brutalist estate ...
The Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead, once a landmark of London’s brutalist architecture and a thriving residential area, now stands as in a state of neglect after controversial regeneration plans ...
The 1960s housing experiment has appeared in everything from an Aphex Twin music video to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. As the area is set to undergo huge regeneration, a new book is hoping to ...
The Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead, part of the brutalist 1960s estate where Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange was filmed, has become a ghost town with roughly a quarter of residents still living ...