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Lammas Green
Lammas Green is a Grade II listed housing estate in Lewisham, South London. Designed by notable architect Donald McMorran of Farquharson and McMorran., the estate comprises three rows of terraces, two blocks of flats and a community hall set around a village green. The estate was built between 1955-57 for the Corporation of the City of London. Architectural style The estate is built from traditional materials to create a village-like feel that, at the time, was considered unique for inner London. According to a council statement in 2010, the City of London Corporation built Lammas Green as a 'conscious return to the Kent vernacular, with colour-washed walls, pantile roofs and stout brick chimneys - perhaps out of step with the prevailing trends in architecture'. The estate reflected a Tradition, traditionalist approach by maintaining older values of proportion and style but was unique in that these values were applied to a public estate. Typically, McMorran differed from s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30-39 Lammas Green, Sydenham, June 2018
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
