Hi there! Can anyone help me identify the architectural style of these tower blocks? They were built around 1957 during the postwar surge for social housing in the UK. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Non Sequitur
Oct 26, 21 1:00 pm
not everything built had a “style”
Style today is mostly a marketing term for slimy realtors looking to fluff up their sales
i guess if i were an architectural historian i'd try to distinguish these kind of functionalist modern housing styles (also popular in the US) from the more fanciful stylized work like corb's unites de habitacion and the slightly later brutalist stuff in england, and also distinct from the modular prefab housing in east germany and the communist states. but i'm not aware there is really any common term distinguishing them, and for laypeople there probably isn't much recognition of the difference. these brick housing blocks are the default flavor for postwar social housing.
b3tadine[sutures]
Oct 29, 21 6:02 pm
I'm sorry, but I'm going to need to see some credentialing, citations, or we will not accept this.
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Oct 29, 21 7:26 pm
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Volunteer
Oct 26, 21 2:07 pm
This is the mother and father of Robin Hood Gardens, also in your Sceptered Isle, which has met, alas, an unfortunate fate. The style of all three is: "We can't make it any uglier or depressing, so we will stop now"
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Oct 26, 21 2:36 pm
These could be literally be anywhere. They all look the same no matter where they are. One could say with some authority that they are The Social Housing Style.
NOTANARCHITECT1
Oct 26, 21 2:39 pm
Sorry I should have added that they are based in Edinburgh, Scotland
NOTANARCHITECT1
Oct 26, 21 2:38 pm
Wow, a series of protentious events.
Non Sequitur
Oct 26, 21 2:41 pm
must be your first day on the internets.
Chad Miller
Oct 27, 21 10:31 am
NOTANARCHITECT1 - people can be pretentious, events cannot. If you're going to insult people who won't do your homework for you at least do it right.
citizen
Oct 29, 21 11:21 am
Looks like Chad is cruisin' for an excruciating thumbs down....
Chad Miller
Oct 29, 21 11:27 am
I'm looking forward to it. :) Too bad the OP has run away . . .
Almosthip
Oct 26, 21 3:07 pm
When I was a kid we called the ones similar to these in my city the cockroach buildings
Volunteer
Oct 26, 21 5:05 pm
This is what Alvar Aalto designed for Berlin in 1955. They had hardly finished pulling down the bombed-out buildings by then,
randomised
Oct 27, 21 11:50 am
Aren’t those the blocks featured in the Red Road movie?
Hi there! Can anyone help me identify the architectural style of these tower blocks? They were built around 1957 during the postwar surge for social housing in the UK. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's a free hint
why downvote? This is literally the best name for this style. It's what architects actually use to describe it. https://www.google.com/search?q=post+war+social+housing
Maybe I should've said Mid-Century Sub-Modernism?
i guess if i were an architectural historian i'd try to distinguish these kind of functionalist modern housing styles (also popular in the US) from the more fanciful stylized work like corb's unites de habitacion and the slightly later brutalist stuff in england, and also distinct from the modular prefab housing in east germany and the communist states. but i'm not aware there is really any common term distinguishing them, and for laypeople there probably isn't much recognition of the difference. these brick housing blocks are the default flavor for postwar social housing.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to need to see some credentialing, citations, or we will not accept this.
****DISCLAIMER****The previous wall of text was submitted by an individual who knows nothing about working for a living, paying bills, or providing for a family.****DISCLAIMER****
This is the mother and father of Robin Hood Gardens, also in your Sceptered Isle, which has met, alas, an unfortunate fate. The style of all three is: "We can't make it any uglier or depressing, so we will stop now"
These could be literally be anywhere. They all look the same no matter where they are. One could say with some authority that they are The Social Housing Style.
Sorry I should have added that they are based in Edinburgh, Scotland
Wow, a series of protentious events.
must be your first day on the internets.
NOTANARCHITECT1 - people can be pretentious, events cannot. If you're going to insult people who won't do your homework for you at least do it right.
Looks like Chad is cruisin' for an excruciating thumbs down....
I'm looking forward to it. :) Too bad the OP has run away . . .
When I was a kid we called the ones similar to these in my city the cockroach buildings
This is what Alvar Aalto designed for Berlin in 1955. They had hardly finished pulling down the bombed-out buildings by then,
Aren’t those the blocks featured in the Red Road movie?
Never mind that was in Glasgow...
This bears repeating.