Balfron Tower
About Balfron Tower
Balfron Tower is a 27-storey residential building in Poplar, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London. Built in a Brutalist style, it forms part of the Brownfield Estate, an area of social housing between Chrisp Street Market and the A12 northern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel. It was designed by Ernő Goldfinger in 1963 for the London County Council, built 1965–67 by the GLC, and has been a listed building since 1996. Balfron Tower is stylistically similar to Goldfinger's later Trellick Tower in North Kensington, within West London.
On the show
Old Goldfinger did live in Balfron Tower — only for a couple of months. He did say of Balfron, which was like the first big thing that he built, it's in London, and he said, everything I did, as if it was done for me.
from No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 at 00:55:40 · read transcript
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