SU6452 : Mountbatten House, Basingstoke
taken 7 years ago, near to Chineham, Hampshire, Great Britain

Mountbatten House, Basingstoke
A cut above most office blocks, sleek and bronzed. Behind, it descends to two storeys in a series of broad terraces covered in blankets of greenery. The hanging gardens of Hampshire - they are worth a look on a satellite map. By Arup Associates, 1974-76 (the gardens by James Russell). Grade II listed.
It stands in Basing View Business Park, which sprang up largely in the 1970s as organisations were encouraged to relocate from London. According to the website, it was “dubbed the “Dallas of Hampshire” in the late 1970s, because of the striking concentration of high rise buildings”, which suggests to me a striking degree of chutzpah and/or self-delusion. In fact, I find it hard to believe that the concept existed outside the fevered imagination of one or two planners. The estate comprises one road in an elongated loop along which are strung out some twenty or so office blocks of variable quality, only one of which (Fanum House) could reasonably claim to be high-rise.
It stands in Basing View Business Park, which sprang up largely in the 1970s as organisations were encouraged to relocate from London. According to the website, it was “dubbed the “Dallas of Hampshire” in the late 1970s, because of the striking concentration of high rise buildings”, which suggests to me a striking degree of chutzpah and/or self-delusion. In fact, I find it hard to believe that the concept existed outside the fevered imagination of one or two planners. The estate comprises one road in an elongated loop along which are strung out some twenty or so office blocks of variable quality, only one of which (Fanum House) could reasonably claim to be high-rise.
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- SU6452, 1011 images (more nearby
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- Photographer
- Stephen Richards (find more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 26 June, 2011 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Saturday, 21 January, 2012
- Geographical Context
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SU 6466 5254 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:16.1013N 1:4.4738W - Camera Location
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OSGB36:
SU 6462 5256
- View Direction
- East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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