Keeling House London, Bethnal Green housing, British Modernist homes images, 1950s building architect

Keeling House Building

Modern Housing in Bethnal Green, east London design by Denys Lasdun Architect, England

Dates built: 1955/57-59

Design: Denys Lasdun, Architect

Photographs © Adrian Welch, taken on 17 Sep 2011

17 Sep 2011

Keeling House Bethnal Green

This high-rise residential building was originally part of a larger housing scheme that also contained a low-rise council block called Bradley House. The building was erected following the completion of Lasdun’s two smaller buildings on Usk Street, Bethnal Green, with which it shares its ‘cluster’ design. These were all council homes.

Lasdun was concerned that earlier modernist designs did not take sufficient account of what made neighbourhoods work. He sought to give residents a sense of place and belonging, replicating the good relations between neighbours which he noticed in traditional Victorian terraced streets. Each dwelling was a maisonette rather than a flat, similar inside to an East End house. Unlike a flat slab or tower block, he designed Keeling House with four wings that each look onto another, encouraging contact between neighbours.
Source: wikipedia

Keeling House in context:

Keeling House + Bradley House are located on Claredale St, Bethnal Green

photos © Nick Weall

Grade II* listed building

Closed 1992

Redevelopment 1999-2001 as apartments by architects Munkenbeck and Marshall

Video, posted by Chris Dorley-Brown, shows the topping out of the building in 1958:
Keeling House topping out film on YouTube

This Bethnal Green Housing is located on Claredale Street and is a 16-story block of flats. Designed by architect Denys Lasdun and completed in 1957 as a cluster of 4 blocks of maisonettes arranged around a central service tower.

Height: 43 m

Denys Lasdun

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