Spotlight on ... Modernist Estates

Rowley Way, The Modern House
Edrich House, London, The Modern House
Trellick Tower, London, The Modern House
Keeling House, London, The Modern House
Rachel McCarthy-Yardley, The Modern House

We recently launched a new Property Collections feature on The Modern House website, reflecting the diversity of Britain’s modern architectural heritage. As well as the best one-off Modernist houses, the Collections cover loft apartments, conversions, plots of land, new homes, flats on the Barbican Estate, Span houses, and much more.

Each week in our new ‘Spotlight on’ series a member of The Modern House team will select their favourite properties – past and present – within one of the Collections categories.

This week our Administrator, Rachel, has selected four of her favourite Modernist Estates …

Rowley Way, London NW8
With its striking stepped-concrete terraces, the Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate is the most famous of the social housing schemes built during Camden’s “golden age” in the 1960s and 1970s. Rowley Way was built between 1972-78 by the revered Modernist architect Neave Brown and has been given a rate Grade II* listing by English Heritage in recognition of its architectural significance.

Edrich House, London SW4
Designed by celebrated architect George Finch, Edrich House was completed in 1968. The individual flats were designed to be bright and spacious, suitable for family life. At the foot of the building are communal spaces, with landscaped areas and a children’s playground. At several sites – including Edrich House and Holland Rise House on South Island Place, and Ebenezer House, Fairford House and Hurley House on the Cotton Gardens estate – Finch contrived a dentilated profile. Residents, he explained, could better pick out their own flat from the ground.

Trellick Tower, London W10
One of London’s most iconic Modernist apartment blocks, Trellick Tower was designed by the architect Ernö Goldfinger in the late 1960s. The 31-storey block was commissioned by the Greater London Council and completed in 1972. The building is admired for its bold silhouette and distinctive concrete walkways.

Keeling House, Claredale Street, London E2
Keeling House was built between 1954 and 1957 to a design by Denys Lasdun, one of Britain’s greatest Modern architects, and was renovated to a very high standard by Munkenbeck + Marshall in 2001. Keeling House was given a Grade II* listing in 1993 in recognition of its architectural significance.

For more Modernist Estates check out our Property Collections.

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