Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the design of the architecture and the architects' expertise in some buildings located in north London. North London covers five areas: west of Regent's Park (Marylebone and Paddington), but including the Park itself; around Kings Cross; east of Regent's Park (Camden and Kentish Town); around Hampstead Heath; out beyond, that is, further out from central London to areas such as Walthamstow; and, even, Epping. On the west side of Regent's Park, there are Quinlan Terry's villas for the rich, a new stand for Middlesex cricket fans at Lords, and an art gallery for one of the Saatchi brothers. Each villa of Regent's Park villas adopts a different theme: Gothick, Veneto, and Ionic. Continuities are provided by scale, underlying configuration, and a simple language of materials, principally Portland stone and render. Saatchi Gallery is one of the finest pieces of architecture in London by Max Gordon. Ashmill Street housing, Clifton Nursery, Lanark Road housing, and St Mark's Road housing are the good illustrations of contexturalist concerns countering the homogenizing influences underlying post-modern culture. They demonstrate attempts to establish a rationale for designing architecture that is both prompted by and rooted in regional cultural traditions.
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