A workshop and walks to explore what makes social housing special in Somers Town, Camden.
We aim to build the case to for a conservation area on the basis of social housing Somers Town where examples from 100 years can be found.
You can help – explore and record the social housing heritage through activities
3 mini-walks, sketches and photography, and discussion.
- How questions of health and wellbeing are built into the design of the building?
- What did ‘Housing is not enough’ get realised?.
This event takes place as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
We’ll focus on three developments:
Grade 2 Ossulston Estate, designed by G. Topham Forrest, chief architect of the London County Council, and built between 1927 and 1931
St Pancras housing’s Sidney Street Estate, designed by Ian Hamilton in 1930s
Oakshott Court designed by Peter Tábori for Camden’s Architects Department in the 1970s.
Help us to champion the value of social housing while discovering the history of a remarkable area.
Oakshott
Somers Town is flat. Yet in its midst lies a remarkable group of housing which carries the flavour of an Italian hill town. Built during the golden age of Camden’s Architect’s Department, Oakshott Court was designed by an emigre from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, taken over by a Polish survivor of Auschwitz and completed by a leading Scottish architect.
1973-76. Architects: Peter Tabori, Roman Halter and James Gowan
We meet at and end at the People’s Museum Somers Town, where refreshments can be obtained afterwards and publications about Camden Council Housing.
Concessions available. Please email info@aspaceforus.club.