Gospel Oak's new shoots

摘要

For most Londoners the Gospel Oak redevelopment area is an unknown land. The 22.3ha comprehensive redevelopment was started by St Pancras council in the late 1940s and completed by its successor, Camden council, in 1980. Bookending the development were Powell & Moya's 1951 ten-storey slab, Barrington Court, and Benson & Forsyth's 1970s terraces in Lamble Street and Mansfield Road. But the major part of the development in between was a series of estates by MacManus & Partners that largely turned their back on the public realm.