This event has finished Took place on: Sunday, 26th Jun 2016
Free FreeThe walk focuses on social housing design in the massive slum clearance and redevelopment of the East End of London in the 20th century, taking in typical between-the-wars estates, the influential Lansbury Estate, which formed the Live Architecture Exhibition of the 1951 Festival of Britain, and two modernist developments of the 1960s and 70s around which there has been considerable controversy: Balfron Tower (Goldfinger) and Robin Hood Gardens (Smithsons) -- for so long as it is preserved from demolition!
Along the way we will get to know a little of the history of Poplar, from being one of the original Tower Hamlets, becoming home to the East India Company’s shipbuilding yard and later its docks to being a base for some of the early leaders of the Labour movement.
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This event has finished Took place on: Sunday, 26th Jun 2016
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2016-06-26 2016-06-26 Europe/London Stock Bricks to Brutalism: Housing Design History in Poplar The walk focuses on social housing design in the massive slum clearance and redevelopment of the East End of London in the th century taking in typical between the wars estates the influential Lansbur https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2016/06/26/stock-bricks-to-brutalism-housing-design-history-in-poplar-101101 Poplar DLR Station (Bridge Above Platform Level),Poplar,London,LondonLocation
Poplar DLR Station (Bridge Above Platform Level),
Poplar,
London,
London,
E14 0BY
London,
London,
E14 0BY
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