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Carradale House is an 11 storey tower block on St Leonards Road in the Brownfield and Rowlett Estate estate in East London. The block is 37 metres (121 ft) tall with 11 floors, and contains 88 flats. Erno Goldfinger first submitted his proposals for the tower, then known as 'Rowlett Street Phase II', in 1963, and construction began in 1967 before being completed in 1970. It was designed to compliment the adjacent Balfron Tower, both of which inspired Goldfinger in his design of the iconic Trellick Tower. All the towers display his signature Brutalist style, featuring a separate lifts and staircase core connected to the flats element by sky-bridges at various intervals. Carradale House has two residential elements, either side of the core. Like Balfron Tower, Carradale stands on a podium wi

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  • Carradale House is an 11 storey tower block on St Leonards Road in the Brownfield and Rowlett Estate estate in East London. The block is 37 metres (121 ft) tall with 11 floors, and contains 88 flats. Erno Goldfinger first submitted his proposals for the tower, then known as 'Rowlett Street Phase II', in 1963, and construction began in 1967 before being completed in 1970. It was designed to compliment the adjacent Balfron Tower, both of which inspired Goldfinger in his design of the iconic Trellick Tower. All the towers display his signature Brutalist style, featuring a separate lifts and staircase core connected to the flats element by sky-bridges at various intervals. Carradale House has two residential elements, either side of the core. Like Balfron Tower, Carradale stands on a podium wi
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  • Carradale House is an 11 storey tower block on St Leonards Road in the Brownfield and Rowlett Estate estate in East London. The block is 37 metres (121 ft) tall with 11 floors, and contains 88 flats. Erno Goldfinger first submitted his proposals for the tower, then known as 'Rowlett Street Phase II', in 1963, and construction began in 1967 before being completed in 1970. It was designed to compliment the adjacent Balfron Tower, both of which inspired Goldfinger in his design of the iconic Trellick Tower. All the towers display his signature Brutalist style, featuring a separate lifts and staircase core connected to the flats element by sky-bridges at various intervals. Carradale House has two residential elements, either side of the core. Like Balfron Tower, Carradale stands on a podium with a large underground car park beneath it. The unique robust nature of the tower block led to it receiving Grade II listed building status from English Heritage in 2000, four years after Balfron Tower received the same protection status. Carradale House was included, along with Goldfinger's Glenkerry House, in the Balfron Tower Conservation Area, designated in 1998. In December 2007, following a ballot of residents in 2006, Tower Hamlets Council transferred its ownership of Balfron Tower, Carradale House and the surrounding estate to Poplar HARCA (Housing and Regeneration Community Association), a housing association. The association is legally committed to carry out a full refurbishment of the buildings. The architectural firm PRP Architects which has taken up this project will be looking to restore these Brutalist structures to their original form as required by English Heritage, and also to bring the buildings up to modern specifications and 21st century living standards. The first phase of the refurbishment starts late summer 2011 with the lower Carradale House. The refurbishment will be technically challenging, due to the need to install new services without disturbing the listed exterior. The solid concrete design also suffers inherently from cold bridging, which will have to be remedied by internal wall insulation. Residents were to have the option to keep their flats in the block, or to move into new low-rise homes nearby, in which case the vacated flats would be sold to finance the works.
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