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Hallfield Estate, LONDON, W2 6EB

Not a bad view from the top of one of the ten-storey blocks (Image]). The prominent buildings are 20 Eastbourne Terrace (Image]), the Water Gardens (Image]), the Quadrangle (Image]) and its sister, Marble Arch Tower (Image]), the Shard (faintly), and the London Eye (Image]).

View of one corner of the estate from Cleveland Gardens. The Hallfield Estate is owned by Westminster City Council and is one of several modernist housing projects built just after the war period by the Tecton architects, The main architect was Berthold Lubetkin. The building work took place in two phases of 1951–55 and 1955–58.This photo was taken shortly after completion of the first phase in 1956.

One of the 14 Grade II listed blocks of the Estate on Leinster Gardens. As seen from an access road passing through the estate. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-1402283-hallfield-estate-14-residential-blocks- for more details on the estate.

One of the 14 Grade II listed blocks of the Estate on Leinster Gardens. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-1402283-hallfield-estate-14-residential-blocks- for more details on the estate.

A London County Council estate into which it is evident that more thought than usual was invested in its design, appearance and layout. It consists of six ten-storey slabs and eight six-storey slabs arranged at 45 degrees to the surrounding roads and generously endowed with green space and trees. Also included in the plan were schools, a laundry and shops. The varied, patterned facades betray the involvement of Berthold Lubetkin of Tecton, although after the firm was dissolved execution fell to Denys Lasdun and Lindsay Drake. It was not, however, without criticism. Pevsner wrote that the "formal planning [subordinates] the individual unit to the whole and to some extent sacrifices private convenience to this grand aim", but concluded thus: "the total design has a visual force and character that distinguish it from much public housing of the 1950s". It was designed from 1947 and completed in 1955. Grade II listed. See also Image] and Image

This brick and concrete school was designed by Lindsay Drake and Denys Lasdun. Built in 1953. As part of a group with the Hallfield Estate. Then Grade II* listed in 1988. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-428783-hallfield-school-greater-london-authorit for more details.

A London County Council estate into which it is evident that more thought than usual was invested in its design, appearance and layout. It consists of six ten-storey slabs and eight six-storey slabs arranged at 45 degrees to the surrounding roads and generously endowed with green space and trees. Also included in the plan were schools, a laundry and shops. The varied, patterned facades betray the involvement of Berthold Lubetkin of Tecton, although after the firm was dissolved execution fell to Denys Lasdun and Lindsay Drake. It was not, however, without criticism. Pevsner wrote that the "formal planning [subordinates] the individual unit to the whole and to some extent sacrifices private convenience to this grand aim", but concluded thus: "the total design has a visual force and character that distinguish it from much public housing of the 1950s". It was designed from 1947 and completed in 1955. Grade II listed. See also Image] and Image

The borough of Paddington was merged into Camden in 1965 along with Hampstead and St Pancras.

This was designed by Denys Lasdun, built in 1951. Walking this way one sees a pattern of light from the windows between the pillars. Walking the other way one sees through the glass windows.