The Spa Green Estate, Finsbury: ‘an outstanding advance in municipal housing … one of the showpieces of London’
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The Survey of London, not prone to hyperbole, describes the Spa Green Estate as ‘heroic’. Nikolaus Pevsner called it ‘the most innovative public housing’ of its time. English Heritage listed it Grade II* in 1998. And you can see for yourself – it’s south of the Angel, just by Sadler’s Wells – that the estate looks good, achieving something very rare, being both impressive and intimate. The engineering and design are first-class
The Spa Green Estate, Finsbury: ‘an outstanding advance in municipal housing … one of the showpieces of London’
The Spa Green Estate, Finsbury: ‘an…
The Spa Green Estate, Finsbury: ‘an outstanding advance in municipal housing … one of the showpieces of London’
The Survey of London, not prone to hyperbole, describes the Spa Green Estate as ‘heroic’. Nikolaus Pevsner called it ‘the most innovative public housing’ of its time. English Heritage listed it Grade II* in 1998. And you can see for yourself – it’s south of the Angel, just by Sadler’s Wells – that the estate looks good, achieving something very rare, being both impressive and intimate. The engineering and design are first-class