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Keeling House with four wings that each look onto another, encouraging contact between neighbours. Between the central lift tower and the front doors of the apartments, tenants had to pass communal 'drying areas' for laundry and storage, where he
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Keeling House was originally part of a larger public housing scheme that also contained a low-rise council block called
Bradley House. The building was erected following the completion of Lasdun's two smaller buildings on Usk Street, Bethnal Green, with which it shares its 'cluster' design. These
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between 1999 and 2001. Key features of the renovation include a striking glass foyer with external water feature designed by local architects
Munkenbeck and Marshall, and eight penthouses on what had previously been the service roof of a 15-storey building. Lasdun, who died in 2001, visited the
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designs did not take sufficient account of what made neighbourhoods work. He sought to give residents a sense of place and belonging, replicating the good relations between neighbours which he noticed in traditional
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project and supported the plans including the addition of penthouse flats, but regretted that the building would no longer house the poor. The redevelopment won an
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council housing to receive this designation. Tower
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