Dawson’s Heights in Dulwich, designed by architect Kate Macintosh
(Picture: Jack Young)In London, some council estates have achieved celebrity status. When Erno Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower in Poplar was controversially turned into private flats, the marketing suite even sold tote bags branded with an image of the Modernist high-rise.
But hidden away in the capital are hundreds of lesser-known estates just as architecturally significant, if not all as well preserved. These “undermined and underfunded” buildings are now being celebrated in a new book by south London photographer Jack Young.
