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Sandstone Place III
London N19
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Architect: Peter Tabori & Ken Adie
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“A light-filled apartment on the iconic Whittington Estate”
This beautifully bright one-bedroom apartment is located on the top floor of Sandstone Place, a building on the popular Whittington Estate in Highgate. The renowned modernist block was designed by Peter Tabori in the 1970s during Camden Council's "golden age" of progressive social housing developments. It is characterised by its stepped profile that provides each apartment with excellent levels of natural light, and the private entrances leading to each apartment from the pedestrianised street. The estate is located between Highgate Village and Dartmouth Park, with the expansive green spaces of Hampstead Heath and Waterlow Park just a short walk away. For more information, please see the History section below.
Sandstone Place III
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History
The Metropolitan Boroughs of St. Pancras, Holborn and Hampstead merged to become Camden in 1965. Under the stewardship of Sydney Cook, the new borough quickly became renowned for its radical housing. Cook appointed a “dream team” of architects working out of Holborn Town Hall, led by Neave Brown. These included Peter Tabori, who was born in Hungary in 1942 and studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic. When he was a student, he asked the local authority for a diploma project and was given the brief for Highgate New Town (Whittington Estate). After working for Ernö Goldfinger and Denys Lasdun, Tabori joined Camden Architects Department – Sydney Cook had been so impressed by Tabori’s student work that he was employed to develop it into the final scheme.
The estate was built between 1973 and 1978 overlooking the cemetery. It comprises six terraces with strong horizontal lines of balconies and cornices and vertical cross walls. Between each terrace is a pedestrian walkway, with trees and shrubs to soften the architecture.
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