Sub Series: Miscellaneous prefabrication works in UK and Europe
- Date:
- 1960 - 1970
- Reference:
- JLP01/21/005
- Type:
- Sub Series containing Photographic and Miscellaneous material
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Description
Box containing 8 albums, with a total of 285 prints from the early 1960s which show:
- examples of construction work using the Laingspan process (including County High School, Arnold, Nottinghamshire; Kingsway Secondary Modern School, Rochdale; a polio rehabitation unit at Headington, Oxford; and Russell School, Croydon) and views of panel fabrication; - the installation of a prefabricated bathroom in a house on an unidentified site; and experiments in moulded plastic linings to formwork and Laingspan panels, walls cast from glass-fibre moulds, and prefaced Thermalite blocks; - views of prefabricated units in use in Swedish building projects, including the Electrolux laboratory at Lilla Essingen; a warehouse at Stura Essingen; a Skarne system housing scheme and apartment block; a students' hostel in Lidingovargen; housing units in Skondal; Nacka Hospital; a pedestrian way, shops and flats in Farsta; a housing scheme in Larsboda; the Sergelgatan redevelopment in Stockholm; and buildings at the BIM60 exhibition; - views of prefabricated units in use in unidentified French building projects, and apartment blocks possibly in Geneva, Switzerland.
A detailed list is available.
Content
This is part of the Series: JLP01/21 John Laing Photographic Collection Miscellaneous Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
This Sub Series contains the following materials:
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