Loughborough Estate, Loughborough Road (1)
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Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Mar 2012
The estate was built in 1953-57 to the designs of the London County Council's chief architect Leslie Martin. Here are three of the four eleven-storey blocks, bearing the influence of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles.