Council Housing, Trellick Tower, Kensington, Greater London
Trellick Tower is a 30 floor tower block consisting of 217 flats, six shops, an office, youth and women's centres. It was built as part of the Cheltenham Estate; a mixture of high and low rise blocks, between Goldbourne Road, the Westway and the canal. It was designed between 1968-72 by Erno Goldfinger for the London County Council. The tower has a dramatic silhouette with the separate lift and stair tower linked by bridges to the flats. Goldfinger was an important architect who paid a lot of attention to planning and decorating the interior of both public areas and the flats themselves. This block included the best ideas of the time on high rise council housing but was one of the last to be built. By the 1970s the whole idea of housing families in tall tower blocks was being questioned.
