The Finsbury Health Centre in the Finsbury

Finsbury

Finsbury is a district of central London, England. It lies immediately north of the City of London and Clerkenwell, west of Shoreditch, and south of Islington and City Road. It is in the south of the London Borough of Islington. The Finsbury Estate is in the western part of the district...

 area of London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England, built in 1935-38, was designed by Berthold Lubetkin

Berthold Lubetkin

Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin was a Russian émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s. His work includes the Highpoint housing complex, London Zoo penguin pool, Finsbury Health Centre and Spa Green Estate.-Early years:Berthold Lubetkin was born in Tiflis into a Jewish...

 and the Tecton architecture practice. The design shares some of its materials and detailing with similar Lubetkin projects of the period, including the Priory Green, Spa Green

Spa Green Estate

Spa Green Estate between Rosebery Avenue and St John St in Clerkenwell, London EC1, is the most complete post-war realization of a 1930s radical plan for social regeneration through Modernist architecture. Originally conceived as public housing, it is now a mixed community of private owners and...

 and Hallfield

Hallfield Estate

The Hallfield Estate is one of several modernist housing projects in London designed in the immediate post-war period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin. Following the dissolution of Tecton, the project was realised by Denys Lasdun and Lindsay Drake in the 1950s...

 Estates.

Partly restored in the mid 1990s, the building is Grade I listed.

Services housed at the centre include the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children

Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children

The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children is a specialist centre for speech and language therapy for the treatment of stammering, located at 13-15 Pine Street,London, EC1R OLP....

and Clerkenwell Medical Practice.

External links

• Islington Council: Finsbury Health Centre
• Design Museum page about Berthold Lubetkin
• http://www.clerkenwellmedicalpractice.org.uk/ about Clerkenwell Medical Practice
• http://www.utopialondon.com/page/lubetkin website of Film documentary exploring impact of Lubetkin's work in Finsbury