“A monster sat down in Catford, and just what the place needed.” Ian Nairn, writing about Rodney Gordon’s Eros House in the late 1950s,
“…a staircase tower which is either afflicted with an astounding set of visual distortions or is actually leaning … the most craggy and uncompromising of new London buildings turns out to be full of firm gentleness.”
Rodney Gordon, then working for Owen Luder Associates, also sat two monsters down in Gateshead. Until this week, when the Trinity development in the addled town centre will finally be demolished after years in limbo, Gateshead could have boasted two of his few remaining buildings of the era and, in the Trinity Centre, arguably his best. His Derwent Tower in Dunston was also recently scheduled for demolition. [view more…]
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