council estates.........

[dellzeqq]

as we used to call them.

I wondered what you thought of these, particularly if you know them.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/...hitecture-housing#/?picture=422505617&index=0

 

[dan_bo]

Trellick tower looks amazing. Not sure I'd wanna live there though. Council houses/estates were ace when I was growing up. Loads of places to ride your skateboard/bike and so forth, and also the gardens were massive! I was a bit jealous to be honest....

 

[biggs682]

i bet they were nt so bad as Austin Allegro estates !

 

[Fnaar]

Trellick Tower was a real sh!thole when I lived in its shadow in the early 1980s, and a friend of mine got murdered in the Byker Wall, In his flat. They look nice in middle class newspapers though, and it helps bump the prices up and hoik out the people they were meant to be made for.

 

[mark st1]

Bishopsfield looks very nice.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

As fnaar mentioned, they look good for middle class newspapers. In reality they were/are appalling places to live - no matter how much architects try to excuse them as being of their time, they were the product of architects not understanding what they were creating; crime and poverty environments.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I only know the Dawson's Heights and Arnold Circus ones. I'll have been on the Pimlico one quite recently but it's left no memory whatsoever, which I suppose is comment enough. I used to live opposite Dawson's Heights in Overhill Road - my daughter was conceived there - but it was far less inviting than a rocky outcrop that dominated the hill top would have been. Even those Google map cars seem to have been frightened away. I like Arnold Circus, it has a feeling of solidity and calm about it and - rare enough for councillery - its roads are quiet and actually go somewhere. It doesn't have that typical dead end feel to it.

My own council estate suffers a little from that dead end feel though there is a fair amount of cross-estate movement from cyclists and pedestrians.

Oh, and what's wrong with calling it a council estate? I can't think of another useful title for where I live.

 

[Sandra6]

People always think council houses have huge gardens, but I grew up in one with a tiny garden, surrounded by a metal fence, hardly peace and tranquility.
We lived in a couple over the years since we got married and never had more than an average garden.

 

[colly]

Why do councils always seem to make 'big statements' or go for some bizarre street layout when it comes to providing housing.
What's wrong with conventional housing with a conventional layout? Is it just building down to a price or what ?

 

[marinyork]

People always think council houses have huge gardens, but I grew up in one with a tiny garden, surrounded by a metal fence, hardly peace and tranquility.

You are the first person I have ever heard comment of such an idea.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

People always think council houses have huge gardens.

I have never heard anyone else say this.

 

[dan_bo]

People always think council houses have huge gardens, but I grew up in one with a tiny garden, surrounded by a metal fence, hardly peace and tranquility.
We lived in a couple over the years since we got married and never had more than an average garden.

No honestly. CEs/CHs round where I grew up a lot-most of trhem had huge gardens. Lots of space. Most of em got sold private in the early 90s mind...

 

[The Jogger]

Gallowgate, what an apt name, the place just looks so depressing. Rowan Moore should be tested for drugs.

 

[Linford]

I am struggling with the idea of getting misty eyed over the filthy stairwells which reek of a mixture of pee and disinfectant in these concrete towers.
High rise living in social housing created as many problems as it solved...it is a failed experiment, and the shift away from this mindset is a bit of a race now by idealistic architects who designed stacked concrete boxes to cram as many families into a small footprint and now acknowledged as poorly thought out social meddling by egotistical people who thought they knew best.
Testament to this is the fact that Architects never design their own homes with this brief....

 

[The Jogger]

I once lived on the tenth floor ( of eleven) overlooking Richmond Park in a quiet little road, were people use to polish the landing tiles now it's probably just all Polish...........not that there is anything wrong with that........