Glenkerry
House, Poplar, London
Architect
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Erno Goldfinger
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Date Built
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1970s
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Location
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Brownfield Estate, Poplar
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Description
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Glenkerry House is
one of three residential buildings designed by
Erno Goldfinger in Poplar, East London. It
is part of the Brownfield Estate.
Goldfinger's Balfron Tower, Carradale House and
Glenkerry House sit in a cluster on either side
of St Leonard’s Road close to the entrance to
the Blackwall Tunnel.
Glenkerry is run as a self managed co-operative
housing association and contains a total of 79
flats of various configurations. The
housing association website says of Glenkerry
that, “Initially commissioned by the
Greater London Council (GLC), it was
possibly the last tower block to be built by
the GLC before its dissolution. Upon
completion, the GLC decided to hand it over
to the Greater London Secondary Housing
Association (GLSHA) who decided to promote a
Community Leasehold Housing Co-operative in
which the block would be managed, not by an
external company, but by the residents
themselves. Glenkerry remained empty for
some eighteen months before the first
Co-operators moved into the block in the
spring of 1979. GLSHA managed the scheme
until April 1980 when the elected Management
Committee took over.”
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