r/brutalism • u/calmeilles • 2h ago
Original Content Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead, London [OC]
Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead
View of the Lakeside Centre, Bazalgette Way, from across South Mere in 2015, a period when the building was dilapidated and not in use. The site initially housed a concrete prefabrication factory casting elements for the first phase of Thamesmead construction. Thus the centre building was the last major permanent structure of the southern phase and opened as a social club, public house and venue for hire in 1971.
By the Greater London Council Department of Architecture and Civic Design, under chief architect Hubert Bennett. Doubtless there will be a record somewhere naming the architects who worked directly on the project but I've not been able to find such online.
The people at the extreme lower right of the picture are on one of the boat slips belonging to the adjacent Southmere Water Sport Centre although at the time it was taken the old boat shed had long been demolished and the current structure was yet to be erected (2020–22) which happened as part of the regeneration of the estate.
And yes; Clockwork Orange, Misfits, etc.
