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A Trellick community celebration to mark 50 years of the iconic tower block took place on 9.07.22. Trellick Tower is a Grade II* listed tower block on the Cheltenham Estate in Kensal Green, London. Opened in 1972, it had been commissioned by the Greater London Council and designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ern? Goldfinger. Live Graffiti took place, with some of the best artists around on hand to share their skills and create a stunning Trellick Hall of Fame piece for the day.
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Once we built social house worth looking at!
Trellick Tower comprises 217 flats, six shops, an office, youth and women's centres. 1968-72 by Erno Goldfinger. Bush-hammered in-situ reinforced concrete with some pre-cast pebble-finished panels, and timber cladding to balconies. L-shaped block linked by 35 storey service tower semi-freestanding at corner, the main range of 31 storeys and the lower of seven linked to core every third floor. The service core incorporates lifts, stairs and refuse shutes, with a projecting boiler house on the 32nd and 33rd floors. Each third, corridor, floor contains six one-bedroom flats in each wing, with a storey of two-bedroom flats above and below reached off the same level. The 23rd and 24th floors contain five two-storey maisonettes and two flats.
The service tower is a slim and very sculptural composition with narrow, slit windows except to the fully glazed boiler house, its form a contrast to the highly glazed, trabeated grid of the main blocks. All windows are timber-framed casements. All the living rooms, and the kitchens to the two-bedroom flats, have balconies forming a distinctive pattern across the main facades that is interupted by the maisonette floor. Varnished timber sidings to these balconies. The corridors on the north face are distinguished by pre-cast panels. Bay windows to youth and women's centres in main block overlooking broad raised terrace; in the lower wing a doctor's surgery retains its original facade and lettering designed by Goldfinger. Interior finished with pre-cast pebble panels and brightly coloured tiles to corridors and lift walls. The interiors of the flats are interesting in plan, and the light switches are incorporated in the door surrounds. Three-bedroom flats have sliding screens. Some original balustrade to internal stairs within flats.
A celebration of concrete - a Utopian dream?
Canon EOS 350d, Canon EF-S 18-55mm, shot in RAW, processed in Photoshop.
Trellick Tower, North Kensington, London, UK
A "fine" example of Brutalist architecture. In the past, the tower had a very poor reputation for crime and anti-social behaviour.
Trivia: (from Wikipedia...)
In the song "Best Days" by Blur, Trellick Tower is referred to in the lyric, 'Trellicks Tower's been calling'. The building is also seen in Blur's video for "For Tomorrow" and the video for "Kingdom of Doom" by Blur lead singer Damon Albarn's 2007 project The Good, the Bad and the Queen.
Serendipity: "lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries."
A special moment captured at the Trellick Tower in London UK. I had to be quick to capture the two viewers in similar positions.