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We visited 97
Park Avenue in
Ruislip
on September 17, 2006 as part of London Openhouse.
It is a Bauhaus/Modern Movement semi-detached family house with white
concrete walls, flat roof, expanses of glass and balconies in stark
contrast to the traditional architecture of the area. |
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| No 97. We were shown
round by the owners |
Nos 97 - 101 |
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| Detail of French Doors
and balcony |
The roof garden |
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"Hugely controversial at the time of their
construction in 1932 and 1938, 97 and 101 Park Avenue are two houses in
a brace of semi-detached Bauhaus villas in the most unlikely setting of
mock-Tudor, pebble-dash Ruislip, a conservative Metroland suburb, now as
then. Designed by the young, early Modern Movement practice Connell Ward
and Lucas, this was Britain's gloriously suburban response to the ideal
white concrete villas of Le Corbusier standing elegant, aloof and
detached on stilts on the fringes of Paris. No 97 has been meticulously
restored." |
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