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10 Palace Gate – Modern Housing London

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4 Oct 2009

10 Palace Gate

Date built: 1939

Architect: Wells Coates

Celebrated Modern Housing in the capital of the United Kingdom.

Address: 10 Palace Gate, London W8 5LS

Palace Gate Buildings

This building is a Modern apartment block in London’s Kensington area, designed by Wells Coates. Completed in 1939 for the builder Randall Bell, it is a Modernist structure in the tradition of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, both of whom had influence on Coates’ work.

Coates applied his own three-two system of spatial layout within this building for the first time, an idea he used to create variety within the units. The generous design, which divides the building into floors at various heights, enables the public spaces to be large and with high ceilings, while private portions of the flat such as bedrooms, bathrooms, service rooms and corridors were smaller in scale.

Source: wikipedia

Wells Coates

Postcode: W8 5NF

Subway: Gloucester Road

Location: 10 Palace Gate, London, W8 5NF

Wells embraced Le Corbusier’s architectural mantra that buildings should be ‘machines for living’ (machine à habiter). This ideal was best-reflected in his Isokon building (also known as Lawn Road Flats), completed in 1934.

Indeed, the architectural critic J.M. Richards suggested that he improved on Corbusier, coming “nearer to the machine à habiter than anything Corbusier ever designed”. The building was compared to the exterior of an ocean liner by the novelist Agatha Christie, who lived there for a time, so clean and striking was the design.
source: wikipedia

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