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 where ...

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 complex of more than 2,000 homes, which opened on the fringes of the City in 1969, was widely mocked and voted London’s ...

Greenwich and Bexley have seen many of their pubs vanish over the years, lost to demolition or repurposed into shops and flats. Once central to their communities, these pubs are now only memories ...

Someone, somewhere in the bowels of Whitehall might already have drawn a red line round a lump of farmland in some other part ...

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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 ...

new trains for the Bakerloo line – to replace a 52-year-old fleet – and “growth schemes” such as the Bakerloo line extension and the DLR extension to Thamesmead, both of which are ...

This initiative underscores the crucial role of youth in shaping the future of architecture through policy, education, and training. Enter the Howard Waterfall Retreat ‪Architecture ...

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 ...