Geograph - photograph every grid square

A landmark building, with its huge concrete bulk and striking juxtaposition of massive slab and slender semi-detached service tower, at the top of which is a conspicuously oversailing boiler house, a formula the architect returned to for the Trellick Tower in Kensington (TQ2482 : Trellick Tower, Golborne Road). That architect was Ernö Goldfinger, the date was 1965-67, and the client was the Greater London Council. It was a high-spec job with good quality materials and variety in the size and disposition of the flats. Looking back from 2011, it's hard to conceive of a time in which large-scale public housing projects were undertaken at all, let alone with generous budgets. Grade II* listed.
Goldfinger designed two other distinctive buildings on the estate (TQ3881 : Carradale House, St Leonard's Road and TQ3881 : Glenkerry House, Burcham Street), but not the indifferent smaller terraces like that seen in the foreground.