BBC1 NOW - Concrete House LL

[Louisa]

Britain's empty homes revisited, the concrete house in ED is about to come on.

Louisa.

[TonyQuinn]

Golly, took ten days to build, or did I mishear that!

[DulwichFox]

Watching it now...

[TonyQuinn]

Going to become a home for five housing association flats.....there goes the neighbourhood! Joke if anyone gets offended!

[DulwichFox]

Just needs some nice Plastic Double-glazed windows..

and a few STIK Drawings...

Set it off a treat.

Fox

[Louisa]

They had an opportunity to turn that into a tourist attraction to bring money into the area, perhaps even hand it over to the national trust. But no, they turn it into housing.

Louisa.

[Sue]

But this has been known for ages.

The people doing it have a website about it.

There's at least one thread on the forum about it.

I think it's great it's becoming housing association flats, personally.

[Louisa]

I was aware of the plans but have never been happy about them. Why not turn a more sustainable brown field site which could accommodate more flats and therefore more people rather than spend a fortune on a building which could easily be considered for a more profitable heritage role which could put Dulwich on the map. Waste of time and money IMO. What next? Shall we restore the ruins of Tintagel castle in Cornwall and turn it into an Eco-supermarket? Bizarre.

Louisa.

[richard tudor]

Is the identical house behind it to remain. So we have two houses

Had a idea it was put up without permission

[Jeremy]

Tourist attraction?

Spot the odd one out:

The Tate Modern, The London Eye, Buckingham Palace, St Pauls Cathedral, old house on the south circular.

[*Bob*]

Novelty construction method aside, the building doesn't look like it was ever massively interesting too look at in the first place. Indeed, it's ruined state probably gave it more personality than it ever had.

Agree it's a bizarre usage. Either it's important enough to get restored so that Heritage Porn vistors can flock to marvel at the results or it isn't.

[*Bob*]

(The answer is: 'it isn't')

[Sue]

Just two of several previous threads about the Concrete House and the (non) identical building behind it:

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,185836,943736#msg-943736

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,410066,page=1

[Jeremy]

Sue Wrote:

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> (non) identical building

Perhaps they will be identical when the renovation is complete!

[richard tudor]

From attachments from Sue many people think they are

[Sue]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Perhaps they will be identical when the renovation

> is complete!

xxxxxx

Hopefully not, because the imitation Concrete House behind the original one is hideous :))

[PeckhamRose]

Dulwich IS on the map!