Appalling - how architects and planners get away with treating people like zoo animals is hard to understand. The people responsible for structures like these are sub-human.
Eh, the well-built and well maintained ones are actually pretty nice to live in. Trellick Tower (No. 1 in this video) for example is a very desirable place to live now with flats selling for up to £900,000 - precisely because they are well designed, soundproofed, fairly roomy, and have floor-to-ceiling windows and large balconies (and are not prone to spontaneously combusting unlike ones in towers which have been covered in cladding). There’s also the Barbican Estate in London - while that isn’t council housing it is similar in style with its 3 ~40 storey concrete towers - and that is also very desirable to live in. Unfortunately though many of these buildings were badly built to begin with or have been badly maintained, but saying that they are all horrible to live in is simply not true, as some of them were actually designed with people in mind.
@@JohnathanElySmithwell a lot of the council blocks erected at the time are not great to live in regardless of how tall they be. the structure of the buildings in some four stories blocks for example is terrible and full of issues for the residents. Some high rises are actually nicer and quite spacious inside..etc So it’s not the height or the style of architecture. It’s all the little architectural shortcuts and experimental ‘social’ housing constructs at the time that can cause numerous problems for residents. Lack of privacy lots of little corners..etc
Fantastic- they seem so dystopian now. Love the architecture
Stunning
I had a friend that lived in peregrine house “ top floor terry “ on city road Ec1 good views but not when the lifts didn’t work . 😰
Appalling - how architects and planners get away with treating people like zoo animals is hard to understand. The people responsible for structures like these are sub-human.
Eh, the well-built and well maintained ones are actually pretty nice to live in. Trellick Tower (No. 1 in this video) for example is a very desirable place to live now with flats selling for up to £900,000 - precisely because they are well designed, soundproofed, fairly roomy, and have floor-to-ceiling windows and large balconies (and are not prone to spontaneously combusting unlike ones in towers which have been covered in cladding). There’s also the Barbican Estate in London - while that isn’t council housing it is similar in style with its 3 ~40 storey concrete towers - and that is also very desirable to live in. Unfortunately though many of these buildings were badly built to begin with or have been badly maintained, but saying that they are all horrible to live in is simply not true, as some of them were actually designed with people in mind.
@@JohnathanElySmithwell a lot of the council blocks erected at the time are not great to live in regardless of how tall they be. the structure of the buildings in some four stories blocks for example is terrible and full of issues for the residents. Some high rises are actually nicer and quite spacious inside..etc
So it’s not the height or the style of architecture. It’s all the little architectural shortcuts and experimental ‘social’ housing constructs at the time that can cause numerous problems for residents. Lack of privacy lots of little corners..etc
Was the future, but was left to fail so could been sold off or destroyed for rich people
Very depressive looking buildings indeed.
"Promosm" 🤦