Title & Author:

The Community Chooses / [presented by] Alex Lifschutz.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1995.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Alex Lifschutz -- Aerial View Of Existing Buildings On The Site: Oxo Tower To Left, National Theatre To Far Right, IBM & LWT In Between -- Nearby Tower Block -- Cartoon Strips By The Architects -- Aerial Perspective Of The Area By The Architects -- Street -- Side View Of The Houses -- Park -- Side Views Of Housing & Details -- Overview Of Housing & Street Level View From The National Theatre -- Tower Block, North Side -- West Side View Of Houses & Detail -- Top Of Tower Block -- Tower Block Balconies -- Tower Block & Oxo Tower Beyond -- Flues For Fireplaces -- Oxo Building Beyond The Housing.

Summary:

This is the story of the design and realisation of a prize-winning social housing scheme by the young architects Lifschutz Davidson, for the local group Coin Street Community Builders Ltd., on London's South Bank, a few steps from the National Theatre. Working with the resident-to-be, a mixed population, Lifschutz Davidson achieved an environment in which anyone would be happy to live. Coin Street Community Builders Ltd. say of the project: "Beautiful new homes. Constructed to the highest standards, allocated to people in need, managed by the tenants, and with superb views over the Thames and a riverside park". Alex Lifschutz and Ian Davidson had worked respectively for Foster and Rogers before setting up in practice together in London. They built their glass-enclosed office on top of the Rogers office in Hammersmith, and at the time of this talk were working on the development of a former warehouse and the Oxo tower adjacent to the housing, to include shops, restaurants, workshops, etc. Having won the competition for the housing scheme (Broadwell by name) Lifschutz describes the flexible approach they took with the future tenants and how the design evolved accordingly.

Subject:

Architectural design Great Britain.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architectural design.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Lifschutz, Alex, narrator.