Viewpoints – Placecloud

Viewpoints – Placecloud

Download on the App Store

Viewpoints – Placecloud episodes

  • Factories, Great West Road
    Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. Factories of the Great West Road, Brentford. The “Golden Mile”, featuring fantastical art deco factories by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners and others.
    3 min
  • Warren Estate, Stanmore
    Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. The Warren Estate, Stanmore. A well preserved group of modernist houses at the end of the Jubilee line in Stanmore, the definition of modernism in metro-land.
    2 min
  • Lady Bankes School
    Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. Lady Bankes School, Ruislip. The best work of the pioneering Middlesex County Council architect department, using Dutch-inspired modernist design.
    2 min
  • Walthamstow Town Hall
    London, United Kingdom. Walthamstow Town Hall. A grandiose civic centre, proclaiming the confidence of the new Municipal Boroughs and District Councils of the 1930s.
    2 min
  • Stockwell Bus Garage
    London, United Kingdom. Stockwell Bus Garage. The cathedral of bus garages, designed by Adie, Button and Partners in 1952 to accommodate 200 buses under soaring concrete.
    2 min
  • The Isokon Building
    London, United Kingdom. The Isokon Building, Belsize Park. A machine for living in, designed by Wells Coates and home to a host of artists, designers and writers.
    3 min
  • St Paul’s, Bow Common
    London, United Kingdom. St Pauls, Bow Common. East end, brutalist-style church by Maguire and Murray, voted by Britain's best modern church in 2013.
    2 min
  • Balfron Tower & Robin Hood Gardens
    London, United Kingdom. Balfron Tower, Poplar. The centerpiece of the Brownfield Estate, designed by Erno Goldfinger, and lightning rod in the debate over social housing and gentrification.
    3 min
  • Crystal Palace Recreation Centre
    London, United Kingdom. Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre. Sports complex featuring an athletics stadium, swimming pools, squash courts and an outdoor music venue.
    2 min
  • Daily Express Building
    London, United Kingdom. Daily Express Building, Fleet Street. Owen Williams sleek 1932 headquarters for the Daily Express, the future straight from the past.
    2 min

About Viewpoints – Placecloud

From the publisher's feed

Cultural researchers talk about the hidden stories of the places around you.