Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Albert Hall Mansions
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Albert Hall Mansions
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Image View:
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East end of Kensington Gore from Prince Consort Road
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Creator:
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Richard Norman Shaw (British architect, 1831-1912)
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Location:
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site: London, England, United Kingdom
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Location Note:
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Kensington Gore, next to (southwest) Royal Albert Hall
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GPS:
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+51.500648-0.178491
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Date:
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1879-1886 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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British
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century; Queen Anne Style; Victorian
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Work Type 1:
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apartment house
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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red brick; stone
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Description:
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During the last quarter of the 19th century both urban growth and the increase in population meant that more imaginative housing concepts were going to be needed if the middle and upper classes were to maintain a pied-à-terre in the capital. The traditional London town house was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain. The Albert Hall Mansions were the second mansion flats in England, designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1876. Because this was of a new type, risks were reduced as much as possible, each block was planned as a separate project with the building of each separate part contingent on the successful occupation of every flat in the previous block. The gamble paid off and the scheme was a success. The style is the Queen Anne Revival style, whose sources are not Gothic or Tudor but mid-17th-century brick houses under Dutch influence and the William and Mary style. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Seven
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Identifier:
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1A1-SRN-AC-A2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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