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 | | |  | | |  | | | | | | Name:
Sarah Newell
Building:
Maiden Lane
Location:
Camden, London
What is your relationship to this building?:
I have been lucky enough to have seen the inside of one of these apartments. The quality of living is just amazing. All dwellings have either private gardens and terraces or balconies. Some of the maisonettes have double-height living rooms. The entrance court with its huge flue stacks should become as iconic as trellick tower!
Why do you love this building?:
Maiden Lane is the last in a series of remarkable housing projects planned or built between 1965 and 1982 when Sidney Cook was the head of the Department of Architecture for the London Borough of Camden. It is of the genre of buildings built during Cook’s tenure and is reflective of the brief heyday that Modern Architecture enjoyed in Camden before serious economic restrictions encouraged a return to an architecture of popular and vernacular influence. In short, I love this as it shows quality of design doesn't need big bucks.
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