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Trellick Tower
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Good Bee News In Time For The London Honey Festival 2011
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A Trellick Tower For The Bees
An ecological centre in Lambeth has hit upon a novel idea for bee-housing: they’ve built a scale model of the Trellick tower for their resident bees to pollinate. The 1.6m-tall, 31-storey tower, built from timber blocks, has holes bored into the length of it, which …
Goldfinger’s Babies Saved
The cluster of buildings at the base of the Trellick Tower, which has been under the threat of demolition for most of the year as part of Kensington & Chelsea’s regeneration plans, will live on to fight another day after the council decided to leave …
Santa’s Lap: Landmark Bookends
Every day until Christmas the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
Demolition Threat To Goldfinger Estate
A housing estate at the foot of the Trellick Tower in west London could be demolished under “regeneration” plans by Kensington & Chelsea council. Residents and heritage groups have formed a campaign and organised a petition to ensure that the Cheltenham Estate, which lies at …
Merry Men To Rescue Robin Hood Gardens
The tussle over the fate of an east end council block stepped up a gear over the weekend, as a heavyweight “starchitect” and a respected art critic both sided with a campaign to save the building. Robin Hood Gardens, a 1972-built concrete block in Poplar, …
Fashion? It’s, Um, Smashin’
Londonist may know nothing and care even less about London Fashion Week, but that won’t stop us cartwheeling down the nearest catwalk and devouring garms and gimcracks galore like fickle fashionistas on fascistic diets tearing each others’ hair extensions at a Primark opening. The Times …
Pimlico School: Brutalist Building Goes Bye-Bye
Love it or hate it, Pimlico School is going to be pulled down. The Brutalist secondary school building in SW1 has been simultaneously revered and reviled for years, in similar ways to London’s other Brutalist buildings such as the Greater London Council Traffic Island, the …
Interplanetary Slough
Has anyone else seen this overambitious information plaque at the foot of Trellick Tower? As well as showing you where you are in relation to the rest of southern England, it also attempts to map out the solar system, gives a chronology of the Earth …
