Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom

Silchester Estate

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

The Silchester Estate is a brutalist residential complex completed in 1964 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London. Built as public housing, the estate exemplifies the austere concrete aesthetic characteristic of brutalist architecture that dominated mid-twentieth-century urban housing design in Britain.