Kensington and Chelsea
The elegant streets of Kensington and Chelsea, lined with Georgian terraces and Queen Anne style houses, are also home to buildings by some of modernism's most famous names. Old Church Street in Chelsea features two houses by eminent emigre architects Walter Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn, and elsewhere there are modernist apartment blocks by both Maxwell Fry and Wells Coates. There are also a number of more art deco-influenced speculative apartment blocks, built as the upper and middle classes swapped the town house for what was called “minimum living”.
A number of well known names from the post war era also designed buildings in the area. Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower looms over its North Kensington neighbourhood, as the World’s End estate by Eric Lyons, Cadbury-Brown, Metcalfe & Cunningham does at the southern end of the borough, and Sir Basil Spence's last design before his death was the angular Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Kensington is also home to a number of embassy buildings, with modernist examples at the Danish Embassy in Sloane Street and the Slovakian Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens.
A number of well known names from the post war era also designed buildings in the area. Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower looms over its North Kensington neighbourhood, as the World’s End estate by Eric Lyons, Cadbury-Brown, Metcalfe & Cunningham does at the southern end of the borough, and Sir Basil Spence's last design before his death was the angular Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Kensington is also home to a number of embassy buildings, with modernist examples at the Danish Embassy in Sloane Street and the Slovakian Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens.