"In the early post-war period, Lawn Road Flats won second prize in the Ugliest Building Competition organized by Cyeil Connolly's Horizon. This too, perhaps, in its way, was no mean feat"1The Lawn Road flats was certainly an austere composition, but in its current restored and cared for state, it looks elegant and purposeful. It has also housed some famous residents including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and even Agatha Christie to name but a few....
I'm not sure who won this prestigious award, but I'll try to find out....
1. Fiona MacCarthy in Pritchard, J. (1984). View from a Long Chair. London, Routledge, p22
photo by Stevecadman via Flickr.
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