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Hampstead Garden Suburb, Greater London,
c 1909
A planned residential development with a variety of
styles.
Features include; elaborate and substantial 'cottage'
style with decorative gables and chimneys; arranged in terraces
around large grassed areas.
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Fire Station Barrow in Furness, Cumbria,
1911
Even functional buildings were designed in impressive style demonstrating
civic or commercial pride.
Features include; contrasting brick and terracotta bands [polychromy];
variety of decorative features; tower with cupola; slate roofs. |
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Edgefield, Norfolk, 1912
A pair of semi detached houses built by the local
Parish council shortly before the First World War.
Features include; plain but substantial style; set
in a large garden that could be used for growing vegetables.
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Sycamore Avenue, New Earswick, York, 1914
Another planned residential development in a more
modest, cheaper style for the employees of Joseph Rowntree that
was used a model for council housing estates built after 1919.
Features include; simplified plainer 'cottage' style;
less variety of design; arranged in terraces around grassed areas. |
| The 1920s and 30s saw a change
from the decorative traditional Victorian style to a European modernist
style with an emphasis on utility and functionality. Buildings were
steel framed and modular with components mass produced in factories
and using modern materials such as concrete and metal for window
frames. |
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Silver End, Braintree, Essex, 1927
A pair of semi detached 'white' modernist houses in
a plain and functional style.
Features include; brick painted white ; V shaped metal
windows; hidden or flat roof. |
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Odeon Cinema, Piccadilly, Hanley, Stoke
on Trent, 1929
A cinema in the more decorative Art Deco style also
used in many town centre shop fronts.
Features include; metal windows; etched glass doorway;
white faced brick [faience]; geometric designs; decorative cartouches;
hidden roof. |
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Ibex house, Minories, City of London, 1937
A modernist style office block where all decoration
is functional.
Features include; metal framed windows wrapping around
corner; curved windows and black strips as vertical decorative features. |
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Wake Green Road, Birmingham, 1945
Prefabricated house [prefab] built as emergency housing
to rehouse people whose homes had been lost in bombing raids.
Features include; single storey; corrugated asbestos
roof and walls; front and rear gardens. |
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Mark Hall North, Harlow, Essex, 1950-51
The first residential tower block built in Britain;
an alternative response to the housing programme using factory built
components and taking up less ground.
Features include; built of concrete with brick cladding;
regular pattern of windows; balconies; set in lawns.
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Lardyke Road, Harlow, Essex, 1953-53
Crescent of terraced houses in Harlow New Town, reflecting
the public housing programme after World War Two.
Features include; large window panes; metal window
frames; concrete used as feature; integral car ports; plain repetitive
style. |
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University of Hull, Reckitt Hall , Cottingham,
1963-67
Student accommodation to house increased numbers attending
university reflecting the 'New Brutalism' of exposed concrete.
Features include; irregular layout to make most of
light; construction materials exposed; box shapes; large expanses
of glass. |
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RC Church of St Mary, Leyland, Lancashire,
1962-64
A church in modern style with free shape made possible
by new building techniques and materials; a conscious rejection
of historic styles.
Features include; built of exposed brick and concrete;
plain wooden doors; modern stained glass at ground level . |