Flats at Finsbury
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Air view from the north-west The gardes between the blocks are still incomplete at this stage
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Low-cost housing scheme consisting of four and eight-storey linked blocks
The four-storey blocks which run mainly east-west, contain two room flats, the eight-storey blocks which run north-south contain four room flats, except on the ground floor where there are a few different sized units.
A single-storey structure on the west side of Kendal House contains the caretaker's three-roomed flat and his work spaces. In this block pram and bicycle stores are located on the lower ground floor of the building. The laundry is a circular single-storey structure with reinforced concrete floor, brick cavity walls and reinforced concrete roof.
Reinforced concrete cross walls and flat reinforced concrete floor slab construction is used in all the blocks. The access galleries are constructed with cantilevered reinforced concrete floor slabs with a balustrade consisting of precast units faced with Portland stone carried by concrete posts which are filled in-situ.
The entrance to the flats houses wall paintings by Felix Topolski.
Data
- Completed: Dec 1952
- Sector: Residential
- Address: Collier Street, London, N1 9DD, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Tecton Group
- Project architects: Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner
- Client: Borough of Finsbury
- Main contractor: F.G Minter + Sons
Suppliers
- Reinforced concrete: J.L.Kier
- Wrought iron steelwork: Walter Macfarlane + Co