Bevin Court
1954
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Islington
Grade II*
An estate for Finsbury Borough by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin, adding a Y-shaped block of flats to the bombed Holford Square (at one time home to Lenin. The most outstanding feature is the internal staircase, a drum structure now painted in blazing red. Also in the hallway is a mural by Peter Yates. Buried beneath the building is a memorial to Lenin, designed by Lubetkin in 1942, and regularly vandalised. Opposite Bevin Court is Amwell House, a slightly later two-storey block by the same partnership.
1954
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Islington
Grade II*
An estate for Finsbury Borough by Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin, adding a Y-shaped block of flats to the bombed Holford Square (at one time home to Lenin. The most outstanding feature is the internal staircase, a drum structure now painted in blazing red. Also in the hallway is a mural by Peter Yates. Buried beneath the building is a memorial to Lenin, designed by Lubetkin in 1942, and regularly vandalised. Opposite Bevin Court is Amwell House, a slightly later two-storey block by the same partnership.