The Alexandra Road estate (officially the Alexandra and Ainsworth estate, but often referred to as Rowley Way, the name of its main thoroughfare) is a housing estate in the London Borough of Camden, North London, England.

Dec 20, 2020 · The Alexandra Road Estate (officially the Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate) winds alongside Camden’s railway line, a swooping swish of striking architecture and intricate design that reflects Brutalism’s utopian vision.

Alexandra Road is essentially a three blocks complex that run parallel to each other, next to a major rail lines on the outskirts of London. The blocks are separated by two parallel pedestrian streets, the main 350m long.

Mar 9, 2022 · Also known as the Alexandra Road Estate - or Rowley Way after its main thoroughfare - the estate has become immortalised in pop culture, and in recent years through Instagram. The landmark estate was built in the 60s and 70s; a particularly progressive era for Camden Council's architects department, which decided to flex its new muscles with a ...

Aug 9, 2024 · Alexandra Road Estate, also known as Rowley Way, is one of London’s most recognisable housing estates, both for its architecture and its history of creation. Located in the north London borough of Camden, the estate has become an icon of Brutalism and an experiment in social housing.

Sep 24, 2024 · The Alexandra Road Estate in Camden, London, is a striking example of Brutalist architecture designed by Neave Brown in the 1960s. Its distinctive ziggurat-style terraces, built in concrete, create a cascading effect, providing each apartment with generous outdoor spaces.

Alexandra Road is London terrace house with the design of high-density public housing. Alexandra road represents the application of the terraced theme on an enormous scale. The long site is consisted of three parallel rows of dwellings.

Jun 18, 2013 · Before the development, Alexandra Road was an area of some 600 decaying Victorian villas, scheduled for demolition. Residents mounted fierce opposition to a commercial redevelopment plan which projected three fourteen-storey high tower blocks.

Unlike the reductive post-war typologies of towers and slabs, Alexandra Road is a radical reinterpretation of traditional English housing and urban-ism. This paper examines the project’s design strategies and describes how these strategies provide uncommon freedoms in high-density housing.

The Alexandra Road estate (officially the Alexandra and Ainsworth estate, but often referred to as Rowley Way, the name of its main thoroughfare) is a housing estate in the London Borough of Camden, North London, England.