‘Along with 520 apartments, the site also includes a school, community centre, youth club, heating complex, and parkland’
wow
The Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate is pretty well known, “interesting flat thing” really I mean there’s a sign literally in the photograph with its name on it.
A masterclass in Brutalism for better or worse.
This is where some scenes of Juliette Binoche’s movie Breaking and Entering were filmed…
Designed by Neave Brown, quite a legendary architect and one of my hero’s when it come to designing modern mid rise high density housing that promotes socialising.
We always called it Rowley Way, I know a few people from that estate.
Is that nw1 ? Oakshott court looks exactly like that
Reminds me of the olympic village flats in Munich
when i was 19 i did some roofing and we did some insulation on the balcony’s, some little sh!ts undid the bolts to the scaffolds and one morning i went up there to place the generators on the top scaffolds and the thing started to move and i had to climb into somebody’s balcony and had to wait for the occupants to let me through and the inspection team to look at every bolt. I now work in IT (not roofing)
I love a bit of brutalist architecture.
Horrifically ugly crime ridden estate. Very poorly designed flats with tiny kitchens and bathrooms. Desperately in need of demolition and replacing with something modern and vibrant. Building shit like this should’ve been illegal – it would be today.
I feel like I saw this on Bake Off
Is this the ones in Bloomsbury, because there are flats like this there?
Oh I see they’re in Camden
I love the weaving together of brutalist concrete and plants, all JG Ballard prehistory/future vibes, it’s just the best
Sure Ive seen that block on the bill a few times
Rowley way. It is a surreal place that does have a nice neighbourly vibe. The car park underneath has a hell of a lot of drug activity tho
The music video from Somebody Else by The 1975 has 83 million views and was recorded there, for example.
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Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate btw
‘Along with 520 apartments, the site also includes a school, community centre, youth club, heating complex, and parkland’
wow
The Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate is pretty well known, “interesting flat thing” really I mean there’s a sign literally in the photograph with its name on it.
A masterclass in Brutalism for better or worse.
This is where some scenes of Juliette Binoche’s movie Breaking and Entering were filmed…
Designed by Neave Brown, quite a legendary architect and one of my hero’s when it come to designing modern mid rise high density housing that promotes socialising.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neave_Brown
If I’m not wrong this is were Eggsy lives in Kingsman
needs a good pressure washing
Wasn’t this in the first Kingsman movie?
Neave talking about it here:
https://www.pidgeondigital.com/talks/reference/P9903/
We always called it Rowley Way, I know a few people from that estate.
Is that nw1 ? Oakshott court looks exactly like that
Reminds me of the olympic village flats in Munich
when i was 19 i did some roofing and we did some insulation on the balcony’s, some little sh!ts undid the bolts to the scaffolds and one morning i went up there to place the generators on the top scaffolds and the thing started to move and i had to climb into somebody’s balcony and had to wait for the occupants to let me through and the inspection team to look at every bolt. I now work in IT (not roofing)
I love a bit of brutalist architecture.
Horrifically ugly crime ridden estate. Very poorly designed flats with tiny kitchens and bathrooms. Desperately in need of demolition and replacing with something modern and vibrant. Building shit like this should’ve been illegal – it would be today.
I feel like I saw this on Bake Off
Is this the ones in Bloomsbury, because there are flats like this there?
Oh I see they’re in Camden
I love the weaving together of brutalist concrete and plants, all JG Ballard prehistory/future vibes, it’s just the best
Sure Ive seen that block on the bill a few times
Rowley way. It is a surreal place that does have a nice neighbourly vibe. The car park underneath has a hell of a lot of drug activity tho
The music video from Somebody Else by The 1975 has 83 million views and was recorded there, for example.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bimd2nZirT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bimd2nZirT4)
Love this estate and looks right out of place in abbey road but its distinct and kinda retro-futuristic
Yep been used in many music video shoots and movies too. Especially loved the parkour scene in kingsman.
And the location
[https://www.google.com/maps/search/Alexandra+Road+estate/@51.5373614,-0.1883737,409a,35y,34.3h,42.36t/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/search/Alexandra+Road+estate/@51.5373614,-0.1883737,409a,35y,34.3h,42.36t/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu)