Eros House
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Eros House is a Brutalist building in Catford, Lewisham, south London. It was designed by Rodney Gordon and Owen Luder and built 1960-63.[1] It had originally been designed as an office building but was subsequently converted into flats. Around 2000 much of the building's exterior was clad with insulation panels that substantially altered its appearance. The changes were such that Luder disowned the building before his death.[2]
The building replaced the old Eros Theater in Catford,[3] and was part of a larger urban renewal project that also included a shopping centre designed by Gordon and Luder. The building has characteristics that are typical of Luder's and Gordon's brutalist architecture, including the freestanding stair tower. Critic Ian Nairn write "...it transforms the surroundings instead of despising them. This most craggy and uncompromising of London buildings turns out to be full of firm gentleness.".[4]
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[edit source]- ↑ Beanland, Christopher (13 January 2014). "Concrete buildings:Brutalist beauty". The Independent. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ↑ Jessel, Ella (3 January 2019). "Owen Luder calls for his name to be removed from 'disgraceful' Eros House". The Architect's Journal. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ↑ Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3 ed.). Macmillan. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-4050-4925-2.
- ↑ Nairn, I. A. (2014). Nairn's London. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141396163.