Detail View: SHIMMER: Golden Lane Estate

Title: 
Golden Lane Estate
Creation Date: 
1962
Image Date: 
1960
Period: 
20th century
Start Date: 
1957
End Date: 
1962
Location: 
London
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Display Creator: 
Chamberlin Powell & Bon
Image ID: 
09-1140
Description: 
Exterior view: Redevelopment after World War II bomb damage. Foreground shows Stage 2 of the Golden Lane Estate, on the north edge of the City of London, during construction. In the background is Great Arthur House (completed in 1957). Much of this area was built to provide housing for those working to service the City of London, which had nearly a third of its buildings destroyed in World War II. [photographed on August 1, 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: 
CHAMBERLIN, POWELL & BON
Creator Dates - Born: 
1952
Creator Role: 
Architectural firm.
Nationality: 
British.
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- 1900-2000
Subject Heading: 
Housing -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Apartments -- England -- London
Subject Heading: 
Modernism (Architecture)