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Wedding Place of my late Uncle Stanley Briggs to Doreen Dean (later Greenwood)
Now a church serving an influx of people from The Phillipines
Camera: Canon EOS 3 with Canon 20mm F2.8 lens
Film: Ilford HP5
Film developed in Ilfotec DD-X
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Camera: Canon EOS 3 with Canon 50mm F1.4 lens
Film: Ilford HP5
Film developed in Ilfotec DD-X
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25 October 2015 In Brick Lane looking north. A blue sign (middle-left of the photo) reads: "City - ½".It points westward along Hanbury Street to the boundary of the "City of London" - the original 'square mile'.
Marvellous Bazaar or Contested Space?
The architect and urbanist § Andrés Duany makes some fascinating points about city transects. He describes how in cities like Rome and Paris "the diversity is marvellous" as you move across invisible "lines" which signal different city sections.
As inequality widens in London I've been more keenly aware that these lines can also be what the architect Irena Bauman calls disconnections.
In her book How to be a Happy Architect she gives examples of physical disconnections in buildings and streets. These are due to a range of causes - including, she says, poor planning; deprivation and fear; and rigid organisations.
She's especially interested in "the edge" where a successful city centre meets what she calls a "rim of disconnection".
"Throughout our work we perceive that disconnection in
the physical fabric of towns and cities is reflected in the
disconnections between different economic and ethnic
sectors of our society."
— Irena Bauman How to be a Happy Architect p.123
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§ Updated link to a brief video with Irene Bauman talking with Martin Wainwright about the city "edge" in Leeds. (Start at 1:58. Checked 18Nov 15)
§ Take a walk (or a virtual walk) from the City of London - historically the location of economic wealth and power. (And until the Great Fire of London (1666) London's eastern edge where the countryside began.)
Begin, say, in Bishopsgate. Then walk eastwards; maybe along Middlesex Street. Past the tower in this photo. Through the now fashionable Spitalfields and Brick Lane. And then eastwards through the public housing estates of Tower Hamlets.
Slightly restless patterns of brickwork and other materials. It catches the light well though.
Still pretty new in February 2020. An upmarket shopping arcade with a John Lewis department store and a multi-storey car park.
Camera: Canon EOS 3 with Canon 20mm F2.8 lens
Film: Ilford HP5
Film developed in Ilfotec DD-X
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24 October 2009. The (then) new student housing block looming over Tottenham Hale Station.
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Note for Students:
You can click to the update 14 August 2012. I also have a set of photos around Emily Bowes Court..
Alternatively, please scroll down and explore the links for more photos of Emily Bowes Court and the so-called Hale Village. (Back-button returns to this page.) There's lots of good stuff. As well as reading the comments you're welcome to add your own.
§ N.B. All my photos are dated. Some show how things looked in the recent past. Much has improved. Though in my personal view, "Hale Village" remains a blot on the landscape.
Please note that some websites show artists' impressions of how a building may look in the future.
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§ Photos of the internal 'court' (interior patio) of Emily Bowes Court, posted in February 2010 by Laura who worked for Lee Valley Estates Ltd owners of the site. Photos on Laura's pages were labelled: "Hale Village, North London". The word 'Tottenham' didn't appear. (Checked 9 September 2010 and 17 August 2012.)
§ Emily Bowes Court is part of the "Hale Village" development. It's run by Unite - whose blue sign reads: "The heart of student housing".
§ Unite's website mentions the "excellent transport links" with Liverpool Street and Highbury & Islington stations. This is accurate. And there are also good links to Stratford and northwards to Stansted Airport and Cambridge. Though I hope students will not just "escape" to Upper Street and Shoreditch, but explore Tottenham: the River Lee; and other parts of Haringey.
§ Richard and Gill's photo of the building in June 2009 at an earlier stage of construction.
§ Poetry corner praises the wondrous Tottenham Hale Urban Centre Masterplan.
§ Interesting facts Pure speculation about IsarSteve's Tottenham grandparents.
§ Local newspaper Haringey Independent reported (12 November 2009) on the official opening. See: 'Beehive' of arts students move in.
§ In February 2010 the Hale Village page on Lee Valley Estate's website commented: "About a third of the new homes will be provided by Newlon, and they are expected to be popular with key workers and young professionals." [ My Comment : I'm unclear how that helps to meet the housing needs of desperate Haringey families. ]
§ Flickr visitors who liked this photo and the comments, may also enjoy a short video of the architect Irena Bauman who casts a critical eye on Unite's student housing in The Sky Plaza, Leeds.
§ Why is student accommodation: "the one remaining goldmine"?
§ Article by Owen Hatherley who thinks this: "closed, segregated, high-security, high-rent accommodation . . . is the epitome of our privatised cities."
§ Michael Polledri, Chair of Lee Valley Estates got an MBE in 2010 for "services to enterprise and regeneration in north London". (Thanks to JG for this news item.)
§ Aerial view of where I took this photo.
-§- Link not working? Please let me know - alan[DOT]stanton[AT]virgin[DOT]net
Camera: Canon EOS 3 with Canon 50mm F1.4 lens
Film: Ilford HP5
Film developed in Ilfotec DD-X
for 9 minutes (1:4)
Shot on the Mamiya 7 mk2 using Kodak T-Max 100 film. This image is not to be used without my permission.
Harewood House is an 18th-century country house between Leeds and Harrogate. The extensive grounds include a lake, woodland walks, a bird garden and an adventure playground.
An alcove by the lake outside the walled garden, with a cryptic line of poetry(?).
Leeds Civic Hall is a municipal building located in the civic quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It replaced Leeds Town Hall as the administrative centre in 1933.[2] The Civic Hall houses Leeds City Council offices, council chamber and a banqueting hall, and is a Grade II* listed building.[3] A city landmark, two 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in) high gold-leafed owls top its twin towers, decorations which are joined by four more owls on columns in Millennium Square, which sits to the front, and a gilded clock on both sides. Wikipedia
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2 arcades with shops and offices. 1898-1900, restored 1989-90. By Frank Matcham. For the Leeds Estates Company Development. Pink brick and Burmantofts terracotta, cast-iron, slate and lead roof. 3 storeys and attic, 7 bays to Briggate, 5 bays to Vicar Lane, bay 4 being the round-arched arcade entrance on each facade; shops in same style on right return (Queen Victoria Street) have a Cross Arcade entrance between Nos 24 & 26. Freely styled and richly decorated facades with moulded tiles in the form of swags, strapwork scrolls and plaques. Ground-floor windows restored 1989-90, large 3-light first-floor shop windows, sashes to 2nd floor; elaborate attic storey above corniced eaves has Dutch gables and corner towers. Arcade entrances have an elaborate wrought-iron overthrow with lettering: '1900/ County Arcade', and '1900/ Cross Arcade'; the date and words repeated on the Vicar Lane facade in terracotta above ribbons and swag. INTERIOR: the same style with even more elaborate detailing than the exterior; T-plan arcade with a short access arm (Cross Arcade) to Queen Victoria Street; ornate cast-iron segmental-arched roof trusses, first-floor balconies with elaborate cast-iron balustrades and stone ball finials supported on columns and pilasters of Sienna marble between shop fronts with curved glass windows; 3 glazed domes with mosaics in the pendentives: those at east and west ends being female heads with titles, 'Liberty', 'Peace', 'Commerce', 'Justice' etc., and over the crossing full figures representing aspects of local industries including textiles. Late C20 restoration includes flooring, with a fine circular mosaic with fruit and flower motifs by J Veevers; reconstruction of marble pilasters between shops in artificial materials, 2 bridges across the arcade at east end and south branch, and lighting. Part of the overall design by Frank Matcham for the rebuilding of part of the oldest district in the city, this being the northern section. The architect was a designer of music halls and theatres; the central dome is thought to have been inspired by the 1865 Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. The most ornate example of a characteristic form of Leeds architecture which developed from the glazing of rear yards in the early C19; Thornton's Arcade (qv), 1877-78, on the west side of Briggate was the first true arcade. EH Listing
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19 September 2010. Corner of Brune Street and Toynbee Street, London E1.
I've been looking at streets and buildings, and thinking about what the architect Irena Bauman calls disconnections.
In her book How to be a Happy Architect she gives examples of physical disconnections in buildings and streets. These are due to a range of causes - including, she says, poor planning; deprivation and fear; and rigid organisations.
She's especially interested in "the edge" where a successful city centre meets what she calls a "rim of disconnection".
"Throughout our work we perceive that disconnection in
the physical fabric of towns and cities is reflected in the
disconnections between different economic and ethnic
sectors of our society."
(How to be a Happy Architect p.123)
§ Updated (link to a short video with Irene Bauman talking about such a city "edge" in Leeds. (Start at 1:58).
§ Take a virtual stroll from Brune Street with Google Street View.
§ Even more interesting is a walk (or a virtual walk) from the City of London - historically the location of economic wealth and power. (And until the Great Fire of London (1666) London's eastern edge where the countryside began.)
Begin, say, in Bishopsgate. Then walk eastwards; maybe along Middlesex Street. Past the tower in this photo. Through the now fashionable Spitalfields and Brick Lane. And then eastwards through the public housing estates of Tower Hamlets.
§ Andrés Duany makes some fascinating points about city transects. He describes how in cities like Rome and Paris "the diversity is marvellous" as you move across invisible "lines" which signal different city sections.
15 August 2012. The white block, centre-left, is North Lodge, student accommodation run by Unite. The greenish block in the centre is De Havilland Court - which has flats let by Newlon Home Ownership. On the right is part of Emily Bowes Court - also Unite student housing.
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Links on this page checked and updated 20 June 2015.
§ Unite's website gives a different angle on North Lodge.
§ Aerial view of where this picture was taken from. Please note that this may not be up-to-date as building work has continued on the Hale Village site.
§ In a 2010 article, journalist Julia Kollowe described student housing as recession-proof and a "remaining goldmine".
§ Owen Hatherley thinks the "new student housing is the epitome of our privatised cities".
§ Short 2008 video of the architect Irena Bauman casting a critical eye on Unite's student housing in The Sky Plaza, Leeds.
§ Until 2013 some of these Unite Tottenham flats had a clear view of the Leaning Column of Tottenham Hale to which I awarded the status of treasured historic monument. It was demolished by building work on the new station layout.
§ Thanks to people who pointed out the two Unite links weren't working. Now corrected.
§ Updates for Google Street view aren’t always done at the same time. The result may be a road where you seem to be jumping months. In January 2013 part of Ferry Lane was like this.
Click this link to see the view from the bridge southwards across the River Lee. Then click right (westward) to see the cranes about to build Hale Village. Move along Ferry Lane for the blocks of Coppermill Heights.
Built in the early 1860s to the design of Cuthbert Broderick. An oval 58 x 41.5 metres across and 26 metres from the basement to the top of the dome.