Gardens · London
Metro Central Heights
Metro Central Heights — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
David P Howard — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Dog-friendly
About
Metro Central Heights is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Metro Central Heights is a group of residential buildings in Walworth in the London Borough of Southwark. It was originally known as Alexander Fleming House, a multi-storey office complex designed by Hungarian-born modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger and constructed in the early 1960s for Arnold Lee of Imry Properties.
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Background
Architecture
The design was favoured both by the property developer Imry and by the London County Council as it promised the largest amount of lettable space and therefore the best financial return for the site. Standing at a height of approximately 55 metres at its highest point, the initial plan included three freestanding blocks. Among these, two were seven stories tall, and one was eighteen stories tall, arranged around a central piazza. It is located on Newington Causeway on the east side of the busy Elephant and Castle junction in inner south-east London. Ernő Goldfinger proposed three main components of modern architecture, "the permanent structure; the much less permanent services and an even…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4958, -0.0992
- District
- Southwark
- Parish
- Southwark, unparished area
- Postcode
- SE1 6BT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Established
- 1965
- Official site
- southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q6824538 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Metro Central Heights (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Metro Central Heights?
- Metro Central Heights is in London, United Kingdom (postcode SE1 6BT), in the parish of Southwark, unparished area.
- When was Metro Central Heights built?
- Built or established in 1965.
- How do I get to Metro Central Heights?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SE1 6BT. It sits within the Bermondsey and Old Southwark parliamentary constituency.