Trellick Tower is a 31-storey block of flats in North Kensington, London, W10. It was designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ernő Goldfinger, after a commission from the Greater London Council in 1966, and completed in 1972. It is a Grade II* listed building and is 98 metres (322 ft) tall (120 metres including the communications mast). Goldfinger's design is based on his earlier and slightly smaller Balfron Tower (in Poplar, east London), and is in effect a sister building.

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  • Trellick Tower is a 31-storey block of flats in North Kensington, London, W10. It was designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ernő Goldfinger, after a commission from the Greater London Council in 1966, and completed in 1972. It is a Grade II* listed building and is 98 metres (322 ft) tall (120 metres including the communications mast). Goldfinger's design is based on his earlier and slightly smaller Balfron Tower (in Poplar, east London), and is in effect a sister building. It is also similar to Anniesland Court in Glasgow, design by J Holmes & Partners and completed in 1968. It has a long, thin profile, with a separate lift and service tower linked at every third storey to the access corridors in the main building; flats above and below the corridor levels have internal stairs. The building contains 217 flats and was originally entirely owned by the GLC with the flats rented as council flats. Shortly after its completion the building was transferred to the local council. Most of the flats are still social housing, but a significant minority are now privately owned. The tower was completed at a time when high-rise tower blocks were going out of fashion as local authorities were beginning to realise the social problems they caused. By the late 1970s Trellick Tower had a very poor reputation for crime and anti-social behaviour, and many tenants resisted a transfer there. However, with the introduction of the 'right to buy' council homes, many of the flats were bought by the tenants. On October 8, 1984 a new residents' association was formed. As a result of pressure from the occupants, several security improvements including a door entry intercom system and the employment of a concierge were undertaken from the mid-1980s. Property prices rose and flats in the tower came to be regarded as highly desirable residences by some people, despite the slightly gritty edge which remains. Private properties inside the tower now (Sept 2007) sell for between £250,000 for a one-bedroom flat to £465,000 for three-bedrooms, whilst the tower itself has become something of a local cult landmark and was awarded a Grade II* listing in 1998. From 1978 the tower came to the attention of London pirate radio station Thameside Radio who used Trellick as a transmitter site for many of its broadcasts until 1983. For most of 1980, the radio station had a transmitter permanently installed in a space between floors near the top of the lift tower. It took the authorities many hours of searching to find and remove the transmitter. In December 1989, a low power television relay transmitter was added to the existing communications equipment on the top of the lift tower. This was to solve reception problems for some residents of adjacent districts, including Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove. The transmitter is referred to by the BBC and Ofcom as "Kensal Town". The projection at the top of the services tower is the plant room. The majority of the plant is located at the top of the tower. The grouping together of the boiler and hot water storage tanks reduces the need for pumps and reduces the amount of pipework needed. Shorter pipe runs also reduce heat loss. The oil fired boilers originally used became obsolete due to the 1973 oil crisis, the year after the tower opened. The flats now have electric heaters and the plant room lies practically empty. A planning application was made to convert it into a penthouse apartment but was refused by the local council.
  • Trellick Tower is een woongebouw in de wijk North Kensington in Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk. Het gebouw is 98 meter hoog maar met zendmast 120. Het gebouw telt 31 verdiepingen en is in brutalistische stijl gebouwd door Ernő Goldfinger. De constructie liep van 1968 tot en met 1972.
  • Trellick Tower är ett 31 våningar högt bostadshus i västra London. Byggnaden uppfördes av den kommunala allmännyttan mellan 1968 och 1972 för att erbjuda mindre bemedlade familjer goda bostäder. Huset ritades av arkitekten Ernő Goldfinger i en karakteristisk, brutalistisk betongarkitektur, vilket tillsammans med den enorma skalan i förhållande till sin omgivning har gjort byggnaden till ett landmärke. Utformningen av Trellick Tower hämtade inspiration från Le Corbusiers idéer kring Unité d'Habitation, det till säga enorma bostadskomplex som skulle inrymma alla verksamheter som de boende behövde. Byggnadens många etagelägenheter och den brutala hanteringen av material är gemensamma nämnare. Till skillnad från Unité d'Habitation innehåller Trellick Tower dock uteslutande bostäder och har, istället för Le Corbusiers inomhusgator, den huvudsakliga kommunikationen i ett separat hisstorn. Detta torn förbinds med bostadshuset på var tredje våning via gångbroar och ger byggnaden dess karakteristiska utseende. I Londons East End finns ett likadant torn från samma år, Balfron Tower, där arkitekten Goldfinger själv bodde under många år.
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  • Trellick Tower is een woongebouw in de wijk North Kensington in Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk. Het gebouw is 98 meter hoog maar met zendmast 120. Het gebouw telt 31 verdiepingen en is in brutalistische stijl gebouwd door Ernő Goldfinger. De constructie liep van 1968 tot en met 1972.
  • Trellick Tower är ett 31 våningar högt bostadshus i västra London. Byggnaden uppfördes av den kommunala allmännyttan mellan 1968 och 1972 för att erbjuda mindre bemedlade familjer goda bostäder. Huset ritades av arkitekten Ernő Goldfinger i en karakteristisk, brutalistisk betongarkitektur, vilket tillsammans med den enorma skalan i förhållande till sin omgivning har gjort byggnaden till ett landmärke.
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