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	Balfron Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balfron Tower is a 27-storey housing block in the Poplar district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
		Both Balfron and Trellick towers are often regarded as striking and/or ugly.
		Goldfinger himself was pleased with the design and moved in to flat 130, on the 26th floor, for two months in 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balfron_Tower (214 words)

	Trellick Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trellick Tower is a 31-storey block of flats in North Kensington, London which is an iconic building on the west London skyline.
		Goldfinger's design is based on his earlier and slightly smaller Balfron Tower (in Poplar, east London), and is in effect a sister building.
		The tower was completed at a time when high-rise tower blocks were going out of fashion as local authorities were beginning to realise the social problems they caused.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trellick_Tower (341 words)

	Fintry and Balfron and Kippen - Carron Valley, Campsie hills
		Fintry, Balfron and Kippen, whilst not in the National Park, are in an area just to the south which as well as being scenic in its own right is in a convenient position for visiting the major attractions of the National Park as well as Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth.
		The church of Balfron belonged to the Abbey of Inchaffray.
		Balfron Golf Club was dissolved and the land given up for agricultural use during the 2nd World War but in 1994.
	www.incallander.co.uk /carron.htm (1024 words)

	Housing Prototypes: Trellick Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Trellick tower is the largest and latest of these projects, a 31-story apartment slab, part of a complex of several buildings in North Kensington called Cheltenham Estate, built for the Greater London Council.
		The opposite end of the building is expressed as a vertical zone of walls and different windows reflecting the presence of the 2nd stair and a zone of different dwellings that occupy the end of the building as compared to the side.
		Trellick was regularly featured in the tabloids as “The Tower of Terror”, and there were stories of women being raped in the elevators, children attacked by drug addicts, and homeless squatters setting fire to empty flats.
	www.housingprototypes.org /project?File_No=GB010 (2012 words)

	From Here To Modernity Architects - Erno Goldfinger
		Yet his monumental tower blocks of this era became icons of everything that the British public disliked about Modernism, and his reputation as an architect became indelibly tied to the fortunes of these later Brutalist projects.
		Erno Goldfinger was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1902.
		Balfron and Trellick are two of Britain's most striking buildings, and arguably two of the ugliest.
	www.open2.net /modernity/4_10.htm (553 words)

	Property People - feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For the post-war housing generation the spectre of bleak, concrete tower blocks thrown up in the 1960s as replacements for the slum streets cleared in their shadows is, perhaps, the epitome of the “lessons to be learnt and never repeated”.
		The history of the biggest concrete tower of them all, the (in)famous Trellick Tower, a 31-storey monolith that for 30 years has dominated the west London skyline, is a salutary example of just how difficult predicting the future can be.
		In an effort to cut costs of the tower, and directly against Goldfinger’s plans, it was the GLC who chose not to have a full-time concierge in the tower’s foyer.
	www.ppmagazine.co.uk /april2.html (1197 words)

	Balfron Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is situated close to, and on on the western side of thenorthern approach of the Blackwall Tunnel.
		Both Balfron and Trellick towers are often regarded as strikingand/or ugly.
		Balfron Tower is 24 stories high, and lifts serve all entry floors (that is every third floor); thus, to reach a flat(apartment) on the 11th, 12th or 13th floors, residents or visitors would take a lift to the 12th.
	www.therfcc.org /balfron-tower-321782.html (146 words)

	New Statesman: Your eyesore is my home: Could council tower blocks that wobble in the wind and smell bad become chic? - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Wood's six remaining towers were instead, and with great fanfare, designated "Over-50s Only" communities, and furnished not only with plush carpets and silk flowers in the stairwells, but with a live-in lift engineer and a social club on the ground floor of each block.
		The third tower, however, stayed put as a result of a lengthy consultation with residents which revealed that, yes, some people actually enjoy living in tower blocks and would rather not have their homes blown up.
		Its little-known doppelganger, the slightly less imposing Balfron Tower in the East End, has few such trendy fans, but nevertheless has a vocal supporters' club of its own: in the local paper, one 18th-floor resident of 20 years' standing sang the praises of its London-wide views and full-time concierge.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4579_131/ai_84304124 (1048 words)

	Society \| Ups and downs of high-rise living
		Birmingham city council is planning to demolish nearly all of its 315 tower blocks at a time when London property developers are talking of a tower block comeback.
		And because it is unclear who is responsible for the space around tower blocks, that space is often abused with litter, abandoned cars and graffiti.
		One of the reasons that tower blocks have such a bad reputation is that councils placed so many families in tower blocks against their will.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4338276-110334,00.html (702 words)

	Encyclopedia: Balfron Tower
		The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London.
		Trellick Tower in west London Trellick Tower in London was designed by Brutalist architect Ernö Goldfinger in the 1960s.
		Tower Hamlets Trellick Tower in west London Trellick Tower in London was designed by Brutalist architect Ernö Goldfinger in the 1960s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Balfron-Tower (543 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Brutalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In other words, Brutalist style is "the celebration of concrete." In the Boston City Hall (illustration left), strikingly different and projected portions of the building indicate the special nature of the rooms behind those walls, such as the mayor's office or the city council chambers.
		The current Fodor's guide to London mentions the former Home Office building at 50 Queen Anne's Gate as "hulking." Because the style is essentially that of poured concrete it tends to be inexpensive to build and maintain (but very difficult to modify).
		However, in the case of Trellick Tower, the design has ultimately proved very popular with both tenants and owner-occupier residents.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Brutalism (1272 words)

	Guardian \| Wonders and blunders
		The distinctive silhouette, with its separate lift and service tower joined to the main block by walkways, has turned the building into a landmark.
		The balconies are large with cedar-clad walls, windows swivel into the room to allow for easy and safe cleaning, and there is even marble and a coloured glass window in the entrance hall.
		Too many tower blocks hastily built in the 1960s and 1970s were ill-conceived and poorly executed.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4849476-111337,00.html (276 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brutalist architecture
		A massive crane is used to demolish this tower block in northern England Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures.
		Balfron Tower Balfron Tower is a multi-story housing block in the Poplar district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
		Genex Tower Genex Tower, a 35 floor skyscraper in Belgrade (Serbia), which was designed in 1980 by Mihajlo Mitrovic in brutalist style.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brutalist-architecture (4433 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Tall_buildings_in_London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		London's first skyscraper was the NatWest Tower, completed in 1980 and standing 183m tall.
		The 307m Bishopsgate Tower, 306m London Bridge Tower and at least fifteen other skyscrapers over 150m will transform the city's skyline.
		Shakespeare Tower [B] Lauderdale Tower [B] Cromwell Tower [B] Millbank Tower
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Tall_buildings_in_London (384 words)

	Balfron-Property to rent in Tower Hamlets
		Tower Hamlets obviously agree with the former and have decided to show off Bromley-by-Bow's Balfron Tower.
		The Grade 2 listed building was visited by housing chiefs from Kensington and Chelsea, to see how Tower Hamlets kept the building in such a good state of repair.
		Sue Benjamin, corporate director for the housing at Mulberry Place, said: "Both buildings were designed by one of the most influential architects of the last century and Tower hamlets council is determined to keep the Tower in as good a condition as funds will allow.
	www.mytowerhamlets.co.uk /towerhamlets/property-balfron.htm (213 words)

	LRB \| Gillian Darley : Don't teach me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first, Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets, was opened just three months before the Ronan Point explosion, which was the death knell for system-built housing.
		Balfron Tower, and its twin, Trellick Tower in West London, were conventionally constructed, but had detached circulation towers joined by walkways to the main body of the buildings; sheer concrete and slit-like apertures set a harsh tone.
		The aesthetic of the towers was forbidding in the extreme, a far cry from the polite Modernism of Willow Road or Albemarle Street, as far as the Smithsons' Bethnal Green housing was from their urbane Economist Building in St James's.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n07/print/darl01_.html (2634 words)

	Points (and slabs) of interest
		This illustrates that the mitigation of social problems in a block requires a number of prerequisites to succeed, prime among which are development of a sense of community and removal of fear by the installation of effective security measures.
		For Balfron Tower, associated blocks by Goldfinger and open estate land relating to them have been included in a conservation area intended to protect the setting of the listed block.
		Trellick Tower illustrates the successful rehabilitation of such a block, retaining its social housing use, and is a token of optimism that similar about-turns can be effected elsewhere.
	www.ihbc.org.uk /context_archive/65/slabs/buckingham.html (1647 words)

	Tower Hamlets News pages
		Currently the defendant is serving a three-year custodial sentence for the grievous and actual bodily harm offences, which included three stabbings and an attack with a glass bottle.
		Both Tower Hamlets Police and the council are committed in the fight against anti-social behaviour and will use all the tools and means necessary against offenders.
		In 2001 Tower Hamlets Councilâs legal services team worked in partnership with the police in taking out an ASBO against the son of a Poplar HARCA tenant.
	www.towerhamlets.gov.uk /templates/news/detail.cfm?newsid=708 (606 words)

	Balfron Tower - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Balfron Tower - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It was designed by architect Ernö Goldfinger and, like Goldfinger's later, very similar but slightly more famous Trellick Tower in west London, is associated with the Brutalist style of 1960s architecture.
		Balfron Tower is 27 stories high, and lifts serve all entry floors (that is every third floor); thus, to reach a flat (apartment) on the 11th, 12th or 13th floors, residents or visitors would take a lift to the 12th.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Balfron_Tower (201 words)

	Department of Philosophy, Open University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At thirty-one storeys, this elegant and imposing North Kensington tower block was for a time one of the tallest social housing projects in Europe.
		Renowned in the 1970s and 80s as ‘the tower of terror’, notorious for violence, drug-dealing and burglary, since introducing a concierge system and video surveillance, Trellick has become a highly- desirable place to live: when right-to-buy tenants sell off their flats they can fetch £350,000 or more.
		Too many tower blocks hastily built in the 60s and 70s were ill-conceived and poorly-executed.
	www.open.ac.uk /Arts/philos/text/wonders.htm (493 words)

	Terry Farrell \| Blackwall Tunnel Ventilation
		The Blackwall Tunnel Ventilation Towers, designed in 1961-62 by Terry Farrell while he was employed at the London County Council’s Department of Architecture, stand on each bank of the River Thames.
		Each group of towers consists of two distinct elliptical plans that taper upwards and intersect to form a valley before separating into two funnels.
		The southern tower will eventually sit within a regeneration scheme by Terry Farrell and Partners that will create a new urban quarter for north Greenwich.
	www.terryfarrell.co.uk /projects/sustaining/sust_blackwall.html (299 words)

	Ernö Goldfinger / Design Museum Collection: Architect (1902-1987) - Design/Designer Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When the tenants moved into Balfron Tower, the first of three blocks of council flats on Rowlett Street in Poplar, one of the neediest areas of east London, in 1965, they discovered that Flat 130 on the 26th floor was occupied by the architect of the building, Ernö Goldfinger, and his artist wife Ursula.
		Balfron’s tenants were summoned to Flat 130 for a glass or two of Champagne, a great extravagance in the east London of the 1960s.
		He was occupied throughout the 1960s by the design of vast public housing developments at Balfron Tower and the other blocks of council flats on Rowlett Street in Poplar and Trellick Tower in west London.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/index.php?id=132 (2683 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the 1950's tower blocks were designed to house as many people as possible in the least amount of space, building straight up.
		Many tower blocks were built during the 1960's, Trellick was approved in 1966 based on Goldfingers earlier and smaller Balfron tower in Poplar Tower Hamlets East London.
		In 1968 the tower block Ronan Point collapsed after a gas explosion killing five people, there was a backlash against tower blocks and Trellick Tower was very nearly not built.
	newmedia.ndtc.org /wayne/stephen_bright/Trellick%20history.html (507 words)

	Stirling Tours
		Nearby Clackmannan Tower and the 16th century Tolbooth are all reminders of the area's past.
		Dunblane Cathedral is a superb 12th century church overlooking the Allan Water, and the Cathedral Museum and Leighton Library unfold the heritage of this smallest of cities.
		Kippen, Killearn, Buchlyvie, Balfron, Fintry and Strathblane are surrounded by fine agricultural land and the Campsie Fells, with many countryside attractions and parks - none better than Culcreuch Castle and its 1,600 acres of parkland.
	www.visitscottishheartlands.com /areas/stirling/tours/index.cfm (637 words)

	Knowledge King - Ernö Goldfinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among his most notable buildings of the period were Balfron Tower, 27-floor high (north of the Blackwall Tunnel, in Poplar in the east London Borough of Tower Hamlets), and the adjacent seven-storey Carradale House.
		These served as models for the design of the similar 31-floor Trellick Tower (in North Kensington; started 1968, completed 1972).
		Trellick Tower is now a grade II* listed building, and the few privately owned flats within are popular; Balfron Tower and Carradale House are also listed grade II*.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/e/er/erno_goldfinger.html (456 words)

	The Hungarian Quarterly, VOLUME XLV * No. 174 * Summer 2004
		Balfron Tower in the East End of London and Trellick Tower in North Kensington were designed at the height of Britain's experiment with mass, high-rise social housing.
		Goldfinger's towers can be taken as the ultimate statement both of his character and of his architectural beliefs.
		In order to prove his commitment to the buildings, Goldfinger and his wife moved into Balfron Tower for two months in 1968, holding champagne parties in their flat on the twenty-sixth floor in order to encourage a sense of community in the new 'streets in the sky', and becoming local celebrities in the process.
	www.hungarianquarterly.com /no174/8.html (2361 words)

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