Balfron Tower
Paths outward
- Location
- London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom
- Year
- 1967
- Typology
- Housing
- Materials
- Concrete, Glass, Steel
- Context
- Brutalism
- Map
- Open location
Balfron Tower is a 27-storey residential building in Poplar, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London. Built in a Brutalist style, it forms part of the Brownfield Estate, an area of social housing between Chrisp Street Market and the A12 northern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel. It was designed by Ernő Goldfinger in 1963 for the London County Council, built 1965–67 by the GLC, and has been a listed building since 1996. Balfron Tower is stylistically similar to Goldfinger's later Trellick Tower in North Kensington, within West London.
