Balfron Tower
Folder: London
Designed by Erno Goldfinger in 1963 and grade 2 listed since 1996, the building is now in a sorry state and seems not to have been cared for in many years. The residents are being moved out, ahead of extensive refurbishment and sell-off to private buyers.
In the meantime, Bow Arts have made apartments available to artists to use as living and working space. On the Open House weekend, we were abl…
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Behind bars
Getting up close to the filthy windows.
I love the effect and I'm glad the picture has come out as I remember it.
London murky
An ironic description of some of the new London beers re-purposed for the "view" from the upper floors
Directory
Sign above the lifts in the ground floor lobby
Down the stairs
Traipsing down the stairs to find more studios
Up the stairs
One of the artists I had a chance to speak to told me that she had only known both lifts to be simultaneously defective twice in the 8 months or so she had lived there, so she may not be so familiar with this view.
White railings and more concrete
Well, yes, it's pretty much all concrete in there
Burnt out
An electrical fitting of some sort on the stairs seems to have shorted out
Letting some light in
With a bit of light flooding in, maybe it doesn't look so bad
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