Studio Egret West has breathed new life into the Grade II*-listed Balfron Tower in East London. Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist 27-storey tower was originally built between 1965 and 1967 for the ...
But it bears astonishing parallels to real-life Hungarian-Jewish architect Ernő Goldfinger, who arrived in the UK in the 1930s and went on to design some of London’s most enduring brutalist ...
Built in a Brutalist style, Balfron Tower is an old council housing block in East London (Picture: Getty Images) Ladbroke Grove’s Trellick Tower’s imposing architecture can be quite polarising ...
Trellick Tower, Kensal Rise, west London in 1975 (Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections) The first of the two buildings, Balfron Tower, was in the east London neighbourhood of Poplar. Once it ...
But it bears astonishing parallels to real-life Hungarian-Jewish architect Ernő Goldfinger, who arrived in the UK in the 1930s and went on to design some of London’s most enduring brutalist ...