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Dawson's Heights
Dawson’s Heights in Dulwich is like a medieval castle dominating the surrounding area. Built in the 1960’s it was designed by Kate Macintosh for Southwark Borough. It is quite a spectacle, with a sense of mass like a ziggurat, but all these flying balconies and steps, like an unmade Rubik’s cube. According to Wikipedia “the purpose of this design was to ensure that two thirds of the flats had views in both directions, including towards central London”. Which suggests the quality of life of residents was made central and at the same time the building is hugely interesting to look at - it can be done.
More about Kate Macintosh here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/21/kate-macinto.... “I am old enough to remember the postwar Labour government,” she says, “which at a time when the national debt was 245% of GDP rebuilt the country, doubled living standards and established the welfare state and the NHS… If we could do so much in 1945, when the country was technically bankrupt – what might we now achieve with the political will, in building a more just society?”
Dawson's Heights
Dawson’s Heights in Dulwich is like a medieval castle dominating the surrounding area. Built in the 1960’s it was designed by Kate Macintosh for Southwark Borough. It is quite a spectacle, with a sense of mass like a ziggurat, but all these flying balconies and steps, like an unmade Rubik’s cube. According to Wikipedia “the purpose of this design was to ensure that two thirds of the flats had views in both directions, including towards central London”. Which suggests the quality of life of residents was made central and at the same time the building is hugely interesting to look at - it can be done.
More about Kate Macintosh here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/21/kate-macinto.... “I am old enough to remember the postwar Labour government,” she says, “which at a time when the national debt was 245% of GDP rebuilt the country, doubled living standards and established the welfare state and the NHS… If we could do so much in 1945, when the country was technically bankrupt – what might we now achieve with the political will, in building a more just society?”