Tower Block

HLF-funded project, Tower Block UK @EdinburghUni. Creating an accessible record of UK multi-storey social housing through our database & public engagement.

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

Working together we've worked towards a greater understanding and documentation of multi-storey housing as valuable architectural and social heritage.

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

As of 31/10/2019, the ‘Tower Blocks - Our Blocks!’ Heritage-Lottery funded project is officially brought to a close. We’d like to use this final post in order to say a thank you to all organisations, libraries, and community groups with whom we’ve worked over the past 5 years...

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

A key legacy of the project is the ‘Tower Block UK’ Database, which comprises over 4000 images of high-rise buildings from the UK,past and present. This important archive is fully accessible to the public, and will remain so after the official project end.
https://t.co/4CZYvDCkXA

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

The Tower Block project team invited opportunities to get ‘hands on’ with heritage in our Travelling Micro Museum Box - here you can see it popped up in the first ever exhibition of the Micro Museum at Inverclyde Heritage Hub in May 2018.

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

Over the five years, Tower Blocks have enjoyed taking part in a vast range of community engagement activities, from workshops and demonstrations to film-screenings, exhibitions, and social history walks. Take a look back over the past few years in these photos!

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

On 31/10/19 the Heritage Lottery Fund-supported 'Tower Blocks’ project draws to an official close. In the light of this,over the coming weeks we want to share some highlights of engaging with high-rise heritage over the past 5 years & offer tips on where to find similar projects.

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

Very excited to be setting up for our 'Changing Perspectives' Film event at Wester Hailes Library this evening! With @UrbanTwitcher and @WHALE_Arts

[Rainbow Collective 💚 @TRCdocumentary]

This Thursday @thegreennunhead there will be a @films4food screening of @LedburyAction documentary ‘Cracks In The System’, @Dan_Renwick & @Ish2cream #Grenfell docu Failed By The State.., The first public screening of @PotentOfficial docu ‘The Rhyming Guide To The Housing Crisis’

[Dundee Local History @DundeeLH]

Would your school, community group or society enjoy a talk, tour or library visit exploring #Dundee's history and culture? We'd love to hear from you if so!

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

There's just over a week until our #WesterHailes film event with @WHALE_Arts @UrbanTwitcher ! Don't forget to book your (free) place here: https://t.co/o9Iy7P2hAI

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

We're delighted to be working with @WHALE_Arts for this exciting event! 'Changing Perspectives: Wester Hailes - Films of New Town Utopia' will take place on 18/09/2018. Find out more and book your free tickets here! #WesterHailes #Towerblocks https://t.co/o9Iy7P2hAI

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

There is still time to catch the Tower Blocks Exhibition at Aberdeen Central Library- in place until Saturday 11th August! #postwar #towerblocks #aberdeen

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

The Tower Blocks Exhibition and Museum Box is on the road again, this time at Aberdeen Central Library! The exhibition features photographs, maps and articles with a special focus on Aberdeen and surrounding areas. For one week only! @AberdeenCC #aberdeen #towerblocks #postwar

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

Cables Wynd House (or the Banana Block), Leith, 1965: Grade A listed by Historic Environment Scotland in Jan 2017. (With thanks to @Tower_Blocks for the visit last week.)

[Tessa Pinto @tessapint0]

Many thanks to @Tower_Blocks for a great event today celebrating their project. I spoke on a panel with @asterios_a3lab and Prof. Ola Uduku about the future of high rise, and there was an amazing variety of perspectives on mass social housing across the afternoon.

[Mark Douglas Scott @MarkusDS89]

I had a really fantastic day at @Tower_Blocks project final event yesterday, looking round #Leith and hearing about various topics regarding social housing from colleagues at @HistEnvScot #heritage #cableswynd #scotland #listing @MunicipalDreams

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

This is an important history. We need to tell a more complex story of high-rise and recount varied life experiences with much that was (and is) positive. 2/2

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

Thanks to everyone at @Tower_Blocks for organising a fascinating day. Lots of great contributions from all concerned, not least the experts in the audience. 1/2

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

Tess Pinto @C20Society discusses the process of listing social housing, asking why is it so controversial, and talking us through examples and consequences. #Towerblocks #towerblockfinalevent

[Tower Block @Tower_Blocks]

Next, Asterios Agkathiclis talks us through the project of documenting the retrofitting and renewal of tower blocks across the UK. #towerblocks #towerblockfinalevent