top of page
To receive blog posts and walking tour schedules by email, please subscribe (for free) at the bottom of the home page
Search
The Golden Lane Estate: modernist architecture with colour and flair
The residential estate in the City of London is "arguably one of the country’s most important early 1950s housing estates". So says English Heritage in its Grade II listing of the estate. It is certainly one of the more imaginative examples of modernist residential architecture. Commissioned by the City of London Corporation and completed between 1952 and 1962, it stands between Golden Lane and Goswell Road at the northern border of the City. Built on a bomb site, the esta
London On The Ground
Apr 245 min read
Dorothy Annan’s “striking and highly distinctive” murals
The 20th century ceramic murals in the Barbican Estate celebrate technological advancement. The Dorothy Annan murals on Cromwell Highwalk...
London On The Ground
Apr 12, 20254 min read
The Brunswick Centre, a pioneer in 20th century architecture
The Bloomsbury structure has proved highly influential, but is it modernism, brutalism or something else? The Brunswick Centre is a...
London On The Ground
Apr 29, 20243 min read
A London modernist icon: Isokon Flats
Britain's first modernist block of flats was home to intellectuals, spies and Agatha Christie. The strikingly sleek and simple 1930s...
London On The Ground
Mar 28, 20223 min read
bottom of page