LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
THE NATIONAL THEATRE, SE1
Home to London’s riverside cultural complex on the South Bank, with a complex of artistic and entertainment venues on the south bank of the River Thames.
The National Theatre is an urban landscape of interlocking terraces and a carefully refined balance between horizontal and vertical elements.
Designed by architect Denys Lasdun and completed in 1976.
The National Theatre (III), South Bank, SE1
THE HAYWARD GALLERY - 01, SOUTHBANK SE1
A gallery for contemporary arts built by Higgs and Hill and opened on 9 July 1968.
The initial concept was designed, with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, as an addition to the Southbank Centre arts complex by team leader Norman Engleback, assisted by Ron Herron and Warren Chalk, two members of the later founded group Archigram.
It demonstrates a robustness of the massing with extensive use of concrete and precast concrete panels with exposed Cornish granite that typifies brutalist architecture.
The pyramids provide natural light to the upper gallery and have become a distinctive feature of the London skyline.
The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Viewed from Waterloo Bridge, London SE1 8XX
THE HAYWARD GALLERY - 02,
The undercroft to the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
ROUPELL STREET, WATERLOO SE1
These workers’ cottages were begun in the mid 1820’s when John Palmer Roupell, a wealthy scrap metal merchant, began erecting modest properties for rent to locals on what had, up to that point, been marsh land to the south side of the River Thames.
Roupell Street, Waterloo SE1 8SP
LAMBETH TOWERS, LAMBETH ROAD / KENNINGTON ROAD, LONDON SE11
Lambeth Towers by George Finch for Lambeth Architect's Department was designed in 1964, approved in 1965 with the building was completed in 1972.
The building is an irregular arrangement of three blocks and two connecting spaces, each of varying heights. Many of the dual aspect maisonettes protrude from the blocks, adding further to the irregularity.
Lambeth Towers, Lambeth Road / Kennington Road, London SE11 6NL
COVERLEY POINT, VAUXHALL SE11
Coverley Point (1966) is a 13 storey tower that forms part of the Vauxhall Gardens Estate.
The duplex arrangement set on pilotis hints at a Corbusian influence.
Coverley Point, Vauxhall Walk, Vauxhall SE11 5NS
KENNINGTON PARK ROAD, KENNINGTON SE11
The end of a long, near-symmetrical terrace of late 18th or early 19th century.
Grade II listed.
(Commissioned) 162 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ
WINDMILL FISH BAR, OVAL, SE11
Shopfront on the corner of Windmill Row and Kennington Lane. The Kennington Conservation Area Statement (2012) states:
This short street of commercial premises is aligned northwest-southeast and connects Kennington Road with Kennington Lane. It is characterised by three-storey mid 19thCentury shops (Nos. 4-10 might be earlier but have been heavily altered). The general character is of an historic environment degraded by inappropriate incremental changes. A number of properties suffer heavily from inappropriate alterations including uPVC replacement windows. Many premises retain historic shopfronts detailing (pilasters, cornices, consoles etc) but the majority of shopfronts are modern and inappropriate with aluminium frames, externally mounted security shutters and garish plastic signs.
Windmill Fish Bar, 211 Kennington Lane, Oval, London SE11 5QS
ST GABRIEL’S MANOR, CAMBERWELL, SE5
A large Art Nouveau former college building, dated 1900. Originally four storeys with brick bands in 2 tones a fifth floor was later added.
A symmetrical arrangement with canted oriel bays on brackets rising to frame the central bay, which has projecting gabled porch with freely-adapted Tudor ornament.
Grade 2 listed.
St. Gabriel’s Manor, Cormont Road, Camberwell SE5
GUTHRIE CLINIC, KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL SE5
In 1937 the private Guthrie wing was established with a donation from the Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society for wealthier patients to enjoy less crowded wards.
Designed by Colcutt and Hamp, the brick tower was described by Pevsner as ‘mannered, with neo-Georgian and Cinema elements .’
Guthrie Clinic, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS
NEVIL HOUSE, LOUGHBOROUGH ESTATE, BRIXTON, SW9
Built between 1954 and 1957, the Loughborough Estate contained over 1,000 dwellings spread over high and low-rise buildings, including nine eleven-storey 'slab' blocks.
Designed by a small team in the Housing Division of the London County Council Architect’s Department, they had a strikingly modernist aesthetic.
The slab blocks later became a standard model for the housing programme, and were arguably built to greatest effect on the Alton Estate in Roehampton.
Nevil House, Rupert Gardens, Brixton SW9 7TW
BRIXTON MARKET, ELECTRIC AVENUE, SW9
Foxes and Cherries - a sculpture created by local artist Lucy Casson in 2010, found above a 1960’s two storey concrete infill on a war bombed site on Brixton’s historic Electric Avenue.
Brixton Market, Electric Avenue, Brixton, London SW9 8JX
BRIXTON HILL, BRIXTON SW2
(Commissioned) Brixton Hill, Brixton, London SW2 1AA
DORCHESTER COURT, HERNE HILL SE24
Dorchester Court (1933-34) is evocative of the 1930’s era for streamline modernism, with its strong horizontal flowing lines, metal windows and corner glazing.
It was developed by H C Morrell as luxury apartments. There are eight blocks containing 96 flats set around a central garden. When first opened, residents enjoyed the services of a doorman in each block.
The architects of this building, Leslie H Kemp and Frederick E Tasker, were famous for their designs for art deco cinemas throughout the U.K.
Dorchester Court is Grade II listed, but there are some areas that are in a worrying state of disrepair, where timber propping is now required to support some of the cantilever concrete balconies and corner windows.
Dorchester Court, Herne Hill, SE24 9QY
PULLMAN COURT, STREATHAM HILL
In 1936 Fredrick Gibberd, a very young architect at the time (he was 23!), was given the commission and freedom to capture the spirit of International Modernist Style with Pullman Court, an apartment block for the young professional classes.
Gibberd used projecting concrete railed balconies, large steel windows and rendered surfaces to capture the progressive bauhaus style. Inside, some apartments offered a sliding wall between two rooms for true flexibility
Pullman Court, Streatham Hill SW2 4SZ