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For centuries, the townscape around Angel, Islington has been associated with its well-preserved, genteel Georgian and Victorian buildings, streets and terraces.
In the twentieth century, whilst some notable post-war housing in a mix of low and high-rise scales was built in Finsbury, just to the south of the Angel, the urban environment here has remained predominantly low rise. However, after a change in Islington Council’s attitude towards tall buildings, in recent years there has been an explosion of sky-scraping residential blocks built along City Road towards Old Street.
Do these taller blocks destroy the original character of this neighbourhood or are they simply a new form of the traditional terrace, albeit rising into the sky?
Join Joseph Granta as we explore these seemingly contrasting typologies and how they came about.
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