Balfron Social Club – The artwash & social cleansing of Balfron Tower. (original) (raw)

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• Mieka Smiles: Senior Plagiarist for the Daily Express January 5, 2024
• As buyers reject a regenerated Balfron Tower, we reveal what’s next as all flats are withdrawn from sale. April 3, 2023
• Just how do you get social housing in Tower Hamlets in just 5 months? We asked Apsana Begum MP. August 26, 2020
• Shock, hypocrisy, as London housing activism group @Homes4AllUK provide platform for social cleansing. July 1, 2020
• Guinness Homes are killing nurses & bus drivers by building Leaside Lock. April 14, 2020
• Construction at Leaside Lock during Covid-19 lockdown. April 2, 2020
• Tower Hamlets needs social housing, not luxury flats April 1, 2020
• The Prince and the Poplar (block of garages) November 26, 2019
• Artwashing the Archive with Bow Arts November 21, 2019
• We are “all to blame” for the gentrification of Balfron Tower, claims Dr. Owen Hatherley. June 3, 2019
• Big Issue issues an award for corruption & social cleansing March 7, 2019
• Give me a chance to sort it out: a Poplar Harca Placemaking Case Study February 21, 2019
• What Does Balfron Tower Mean to You? February 8, 2019
• Doreen Fletcher: artwashing the east end with Bow Arts January 25, 2019
• A Researchers Guide to Balfron Tower January 17, 2019
• Dispossession: the Great Social Housing Swindle / Social Housing Social Cleansing January 16, 2019
• The Battle of Chrisp Street July 24, 2018
• The Housing Times by Terry McGrenera. April 29, 2018
• CHAT UP An open letter to my female friends by Simon Elmer, Architects for Social Housing aka ASH (with RIBA registered architect Geraldine Dening). April 19, 2018
• Artwash and the Rhizome (the Social Cleansing of Poplar) April 16, 2018
• Balfron Tower: The Artwash of an Icon by Rab Harling May 10, 2017
• Balfron Tower, Bow Arts and the Missing Millions February 11, 2017
• If only Balfron Tower could talk, if only we could see September 19, 2016
• The Fall of Goldfinger’s Brutalist Balfron Tower and its Social Heritage September 15, 2016
• An Open Letter to Secret Cinema from Balfron Social Club March 16, 2016
• Historic England – What’s it For? by James Dunnett January 19, 2016
• HIGH RISE SUBTERFUGE AT BALFRON TOWER October 29, 2015
• Balfron Tower redevelopment video by Hawkins\Brown July 20, 2015
• Turning Balfron Tower Inside Out July 14, 2015
• Our Area is Nice When it Wants to Be. July 6, 2015
• Tweed House RIP July 2, 2015
• A View From Balfron Tower June 23, 2015
• Just Where Do You Stand On Housing? May 19, 2015
• Poplar Harca: Outstanding Landlord of the Year? April 22, 2015
• Brutalism [redacted] – Social Art Practice and You April 13, 2015

About This Site

Balfron Social Club was founded in December 2014 to examine the ‘regeneration’ & social cleansing of Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist Balfron Tower in Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Balfron Social Club is fighting to retain 50% social housing after refurbishment, Poplar Harca propose 0%.

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