Apr 8, 2020 · Thamesmead is a social housing estate built in the mid 1960s in outer Lnondon. It is situated on former marshland on the south of the Thames that was once part of the Woolwich Arsenal. When it was developed, the Thamesmead design offered a revolutionary city within a city, providing much needed affordable homes with parks and amenities, all ...

Thamesmead (/ ˈtɛmzmiːd /) is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles (18 km) east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith.

The ‘space-age city’ – built to help solve the city’s housing crisis – was seen as visionary. It offered much-needed affordable homes with parks and local amenities in striking brutalist architecture in a marina-style setting.

Mar 5, 2021 · In South East London on the border of Bexley and Greenwich boroughs, you may have heard of Thamesmead housing estate. Surrounded by lakes and rivers, it features some of London’s most striking 1960s architecture.

Apr 26, 2023 · This week, we’re heading back to Thamesmead, the iconic post-war housing estate built to modernist principles on the edges of inner-London. Brutal to some, beautiful to others. Famous and ...

Feb 5, 2019 · Building not just new houses, but entire new towns. One such town is Thamesmead. Carved from concrete, Thamesmead was one of the boldest modernist designs Britain had ever seen, with Brutalist...

Feb 12, 2019 · Offering a marina-esque lifestyle with plenty of greenery and wide walkways that connected residents with schools and local amenities, all set within striking brutalist architecture, Thamesmead was to be the “town of tomorrow”.

Nov 15, 2017 · Thamesmead was named “Town of the 21st Century” and hailed as a true utopia of affordable housing, with plenty of green spaces and artificial lakes, and hopes for providing a permanent solution to London’s post-war housing shortage.

To be built on marshland and part of the Woolwich Arsenal site, it was intended to help ease the capital’s post-war housing shortage and to be a town of 60,000 people exploiting a riverside position with sufficient local employment, amenities and transport infrastructure.

Oct 5, 2022 · Initially hailed as a futuristic ‘town for the 21st century’, construction of the London City Council-commissioned Thamesmead began in 1968. Despite early promise, it quickly gained a reputation for no-go areas and poor transport links.