Lillington Garden, Housing, Pimlico, London 1&2

            Architects: Darbourne and Darke. 1961- 1980.
'The 10 best council estates' an article written by Rowan Moore was published in Guardian  on 15 November 2013. As a young student, practising and then retired architect my interest in social housing has never subsided as I followed most of the projects mentioned in the article and my private photo collection (now mostly on Flickr) reflects these and many more housing schemes.
The description from the article is noted here for Lillington Garden Pimlico Scheme.

"Darbourne and Darke. 1961-1980.
If modernist town planners - would - be rational towers and slabs set in landscape open spaces - took hold in Britain after the second world war, it wasn't long before a reaction set in, including among architects themselves. 
Lillington Garden estate, whose two architects won the commission in a competition when they were 26 and 32, is an attempt to reintroduce human scale, variety, natural materials and urban spaces. Their design takes some red-brick DNA from the nearby Victorian church of St James the Less and multiplies it into advancing and receding balconies which would eventually stretch most of the considerable length of Vauxhall Bridge Road." 
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Victoria (show map)

Taken on: September 28, 2017

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London

Pimlico

Darbourne and Darke

Competition Winner

Grade II Listed

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Sets appears in: • British Architecture • Housing in Britain more » • Architecture in London « less

Groups appears in: • Council and Social Housing • Architecture UK more » • archidose • Tower Blocks and Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s (UK only) • London Council and Social Housing • Flickr Friends of The Twentieth Century Society • Arch Daily « less

Camera: Sony DSC-RX100M3, 8.8mm (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSC-RX100M3
Focal Length:	8.8mm
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Picasa
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