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Description: | This photograph shows Balfron Tower, designed by modernist Erno Goldfinger for the Greater London Council in 1965. It was taken from a slab block on the Robin Hood estate in Poplar.
In an attempt to raise public opinion of such structures, Goldfinger and his wife temporarily left their affluent home in Hampstead and moved into flat No 130 on the 26th floor. The couple greeted tenants with champagne, and discussed their new homes. Balfron and Goldfinger's similarly styled Trellick Tower both developed reputations for anti-social behaviour and crime.
The photo contributed to an exhibition, Tower Blocks: Love Them or Loath Them, held at the Museum of London in 1999. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | �� Museum of London | Subjects: | Public services Cityscape Home and Family | Temporal: | 1997 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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