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50 Wonders | Chloe Phelps: Page Street housing by Edwin Lutyens

2023-02-28T05:00:00

Page Street_Inbetween courtyard_Chloe Phelps

Source: Chloe Phelps

The chief executive of Grounded - an architect, developer and planner by background - picks Lutyens’ only social housing project as her Wonder

Sir Edwin Lutyens’ Page Street housing is one of those rare treasures that gives you something different every time you visit. When I’m nearby I’ll always make a deliberate detour to have a meander through. It was Lutyens’ only social housing project, and it sits at a magic moment in time capturing both classical pavilion lodges at the entrances to the courtyards and clean modernist lines to the walkways.

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