Detail View: SHIMMER: Hallfield Estate

Title: 
Hallfield Estate
Creation Date: 
1959
Image Date: 
1960
Period: 
20th century
Start Date: 
1951
End Date: 
1959
Location: 
London
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Display Creator: 
DRAKE & LASDUN
Image ID: 
09-1128
Description: 
Exterior view: Location: Paddington, on a site cleared following war damage. The development consists of 15 ten- or six- storey blocks and a primary school. Plans for the site were originally drawn up by TECTON. [photographed on August 15, 1960]
Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
Related Information: 
Duncan Horne, an architect, left a collection of slide transparencies on his death. These were donated to Sheffield Hallam University's Slide Collection by his daughter in 2007. Duncan Horne trained in Liverpool, and then worked in London for Maxwell FRY, Jane DREW, and Partners. He moved to Australia in 1965 where he worked with Bert HELY.
Photographed by: 
Duncan Horne
Creator: 
DRAKE, Lindsey
Creator Dates - Born: 
1909
Creator Dates - Died: 
1980
Creator Role: 
Architect.
Culture Gender: 
Male.
Nationality: 
British.
Creator: 
LASDUN, Denys Louis
Creator Dates - Born: 
1914
Creator Dates - Died: 
2003
Creator Role: 
Architect.
Culture Gender: 
Male.
Nationality: 
British.
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- 1900-2000
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Housing -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Modernism (Architecture)
Subject Heading: 
Apartments -- England -- London