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Wyndham Court

Social housing block in Southampton, England

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name	Wyndham Court
image	Internal North-Facing View in Wyndham Court.jpg
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caption	Wyndham Court's internal courtyard
map_type	Southampton
map_caption	Location within Southampton
location	Southampton,
owner	Southampton City Council
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architect	Lyons Israel Ellis
structural_engineer	Hajnal-Konyi and Myers
main_contractor	G Minter
awards	Architectural Design Project Award, 1966
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designation1_offname	Wyndham Court including raised terrace and ramps
Wyndham Court including terraces and ramps
designation1	Grade II
designation1_date	22 December 1998
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Wyndham Court including terraces and ramps Wyndham Court is a block of social housing in Southampton, England. It was designed by Lyons Israel Ellis for Southampton City Council in 1966, and is located near Southampton Central station and the Mayflower Theatre. Wyndham Court includes 184 flats, three cafes or restaurants and 13 shops, and was completed in 1969.

Design and construction

It was designed by the architecture firm Lyons Israel Ellis, with E.D. Lyons being the partner in charge and architects Frank Linden and Aubrey Hume also assigned to the job. The structural engineers were Hajnal-Konyi and Myers and the firm of builders was G Minter.

Description

The building comprises 184 apartments and sixteen retail outlets, three of which are designated as cafés or restaurants. 122 of the apartments are two or three-bedroom maisonettes, with 61 one-bedroom flats and bedsits on the first and second floors, with the remaining apartment at a higher level, above the maisonettes.

It is built from reinforced concrete and finished with white board-marked concrete, with narrow bands painted horizontally between windows and the partition walls that separate the apartments' balconies. Because it is built on a hill, the building has six storeys at its northern end and seven at the southern. There is an underground car park which was constructed from the basements of previous buildings on the site.

Architecturally, it evokes the cruise ships which sail from the nearby port of Southampton. Its irregular facades are described by English Heritage as "sculptural and expressive". The architects' use of white concrete was intended to be sympathetic to older civic buildings which dominate the city centre.

Wyndham Court received an Architectural Design Project award in 1966 and was Grade II listed in 1998 despite opposition from the local press. and his favourite building in Southampton.

References

Hatherley, Owen. (November 2010). "[[A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain]]". [[Verso Books]].
Colquhoun, Ian. (2008). "Riba Book of British Housing: 1900 to the Present Day". [[Architectural Press]].
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Hatherley, Owen. (7 February 2015). "My top 10 favourite ugly buildings". [[The Guardian]].
Hart, Tom. (16 March 2015). "Owen Hatherley". [[Geographical (magazine).

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