The Golden Lane Housing Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London. It was built on the northern edge of the City, in an area devastated by bombing in World War II.
The site had been occupied since the mid 19th century by small Victorian industries and businesses, especially metal working. Some of the basements of the bombed buildings were retained as sunken areas of the landscaping.It was designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, who later designed the adjacent, Barbican Estate (where I have also worked)..
The Corporation of London employed me to establish how the exterior of the buildings that make up the Estate were painted when they were first erected in the late 1950s / early 1960s.
Six decorative schemes were found. It became clear, from my earlier research on the Royal Festival Hall project, that the original colours had been selected from the 1955 British Standards colour range – BS 2660: 1955 Colours for Building and Decorative Paints. I was able to identify the closest existing paints to match the original colours.
A slideshow of the Estate can be seen here.
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