I have only just seen for the first time Jeremy and Fenella Dixon’s housing for the Kensington Housing Trust.   It looks relatively uncontroversial now, sitting, as it was intended to, in amongst the terraces and streets of North Kensington.   But, at the time that it was built, it was regarded as a trahison des clercs, using brick and colour and ornamental gables, all of which were taboo to the previous generation:-

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