Design for Home's David Birkbeck has compiled a picture gallery of poorly designed UK housing. Prepare to be depressed …
The author of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø for Life, David Birkbeck, has made a pastime out of photographing badly-designed new homes. This is but a small sample of his collection, picked by him to identify some of the shortcomings of modern housing. The rest of the scheme may be great – but even the best buildings have their flaws.
The names in this motley crew have been removed to protect the guilty parties, but all of these are schemes which have been built in the last 10 years. A number of them have even received support from Cabe - ignored to various degrees by the builders.
Hackney: Where's the front door?
A few small flats in a sea of black-top
A mugger's paradise in Exeter
Brighton: Ousted wheely bin blocks path to the front door
South London: Holding pen for wild wheely bins
London: A prisoner in your own home
London: Luxury-end bollards jar against a cheap boundary solution
Can you guess what it is yet?
Three generations of design in a single doorway: Victorian lamp, sixties frosted glass and a modern Scandinavian door
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