A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land. Joshua Abbott
WILLESDEN GREEN FEDERATED SYNAGOGUE
1938
Fritz Landauer
A slightly more approachable synagogue design by Fritz Landauer, just off Willesden Lane. The building is constructed of brick and originally had decorative ironwork grills above the entrance. Now in use as an advice centre, the brick has been rendered and the ironwork removed. Landauer was another European émigré, fleeing Germany in 1933. He designed another synagogue in Golders Green and a number of commercial properties, and stayed in Britain for the rest of his life.
WEMBLEY FIRE STATION
1939 Grade II
Cecil S. Trapp and Middlesex County Council
Fire station built just before World War II in Buckinghamshire brick with a re- inforced concrete frame. This interwar station was designed by the Borough of Wembley surveyor Cecil S. Trapp, with Middlesex County Council under C. G. Stillman making extensions and alterations in 1954, adding a third floor to the station building and a dormitory block at the rear. The building still features the original stained timber doors in the fire station bays.
WEMBLEY TOWN HALL
1940 Grade II
Clifford Strange
One of a number of town halls built in suburban borough centres in the interwar years. This slightly austere brick building sits on a sloping site on Forty Lane overlooking the former Empire Exhibition site. Clifford Strange won the competition to design an administrative building for Wembley Urban District Council with a Scandinavian-influenced building that includes offices, a library and an assembly chamber. Despite the sober exterior, the interior features Botticino marble flooring and staircase railings of silver bronze. In 2013 Brent Council sold the building to an international school and moved their offices to a new building on the former exhibition site.
FERNDENE APARTMENTS
1965
Clifford Wearden and Partners
Sitting opposite Ernest Trobridge’s rustic Slough Lane cottages, this retirement complex is separated chronologically from them by forty years, and in spirit by a couple of centuries. Planned around mature trees, this scheme has a mixture of housing sizes, all featuring an underground garage to separate traffic from pedestrians. The entrance features a long sloping shuttered concrete access ramp.
FIVE PRECIOUS WOUNDS
1967
Burles, Newton and Partners
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
1957 Grade II
J. Harold Gibbons
Five Precious Wounds is a brutalist-style church in red brick designed by John Newton of Burles, Newton and Partners. The church building features long windows strips with stained glass, with a presbytery and church hall included as part of the complex. A more traditional style church can be found at the Church of the Ascension, Wembley. It was the last church designed by Harold Gibbons and the outside is in Gibbons’ favoured Gothic Revival in stock brick. Inside, the whitewashed walls allow the altar mural by Hans Feibusch and stained glass work by W. T. Carter Shapland, among others, to shine.
NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL
1969–75
Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker and Bor
Large brutalist hospital on the northern edge of Brent. It was built between 1969 and 1975, and designed by John Weeks, with engineering by Ove Arup and Partners. The idea behind the design was to allow flexibility for expansion of medical services over time as technology changes. To achieve this the scheme is arranged in a street system with buildings able to change purpose and be extended as needed. The style of the buildings is very much of its time, with heavy use of both prefab and in situ concrete elements, and an irregular arrangement of windows throughout.
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