DOI Heft:
No. 355 (October 1922)
DOI Artikel:Hubbard, Hesketh: Modern houses in Chelsea
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21396#0208
MODERN HOUSES IN CHELSEA
NO. 27 VALE AVENUE, CHELSEA
LEAD PENCIL DRAWING BY
E. HESKETH HUBBARD, R.O.I.
There are still a few acres of waste
building land affronting the King's Road
and backing on to Mallord Street, at
present shut off by large hoardings covered
with posters none too creditable to British
poster artists and advertisers. This
ground presumably will eventually be
built upon to complete the scheme which
was held up by the war. If the King's
Road frontage is to be used for shops, it
will be most interesting to see erected well-
designed buildings of this kindtoharmonise
with the houses that will lie behind them.
A little further west is a somewhat
similar, but less ambitious, colony of
188
which Chelsea Park Gardens forms part.
This is in course of erection. The houses
here are smaller than those comprising
the colony with which this brief note deals.
Their accommodation approximates that
of the small suburban villa. They are
pleasingly planned, standing well back
from the road with a common garden
before them. 0 a a 0 a
This work, and other building schemes
now being carried out in London, seem
to prove that architecture is still a living
art, adapting itself fittingly to the new
needs of our present wonderful century.
E. Hesketh Hubbard.
NO. 27 VALE AVENUE, CHELSEA
LEAD PENCIL DRAWING BY
E. HESKETH HUBBARD, R.O.I.
There are still a few acres of waste
building land affronting the King's Road
and backing on to Mallord Street, at
present shut off by large hoardings covered
with posters none too creditable to British
poster artists and advertisers. This
ground presumably will eventually be
built upon to complete the scheme which
was held up by the war. If the King's
Road frontage is to be used for shops, it
will be most interesting to see erected well-
designed buildings of this kindtoharmonise
with the houses that will lie behind them.
A little further west is a somewhat
similar, but less ambitious, colony of
188
which Chelsea Park Gardens forms part.
This is in course of erection. The houses
here are smaller than those comprising
the colony with which this brief note deals.
Their accommodation approximates that
of the small suburban villa. They are
pleasingly planned, standing well back
from the road with a common garden
before them. 0 a a 0 a
This work, and other building schemes
now being carried out in London, seem
to prove that architecture is still a living
art, adapting itself fittingly to the new
needs of our present wonderful century.
E. Hesketh Hubbard.