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Wyndham Court

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It is built from reinforced concrete and finished with white board-marked concrete, with narrow bands painted horizontally between windows and the partition walls that separate the apartments' balconies. Because it is built on a hill, the building has six storeys at its northern end and seven at the
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The building comprises 184 apartments and sixteen retail outlets, three of which are designated as cafés or restaurants. 122 of the apartments are two or three-bedroom maisonettes, with 61 one-bedroom flats and bedsits on the first and second floors, with the remaining apartment at a higher level,
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has named Wyndham Court as one of his 10 favourite modern buildings in the United Kingdom and his favourite building in Southampton.
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southern. There is an underground car park which was constructed from the basements of previous buildings on the site.
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Wyndham Court received an Architectural Design Project award in 1966 and was Grade II
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was intended to be sympathetic to older civic buildings which dominate the
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as "sculptural and expressive". The architects' use of white
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in 1998 despite opposition from the local press. The writer
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for Southampton City Council in 1966, and is located near
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Wyndham Court is located in Southampton
Southampton
Coordinates
50°54′30″N 1°24′40″W / 50.9084°N 1.4111°W / 50.9084; -1.4111
Southampton City Council
Lyons Israel Ellis
Listed Building
1051043
social housing
Southampton
England
Lyons Israel Ellis
Southampton Central station
Mayflower Theatre
Lyons Israel Ellis

cruise ships
port of Southampton
facades
English Heritage
concrete
city centre
Royal Institute of British Architects
listed
Owen Hatherley
Listed buildings in Southampton


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