Aberdeen, Rosemount Square. Detail of South entrance archway with T.B Huxley Jones sculpture above.
SC 353903
Description Aberdeen, Rosemount Square. Detail of South entrance archway with T.B Huxley Jones sculpture above.
Catalogue Number SC 353903
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 70434 CN
Scope and Content Main entrance of Rosemount Square (with T B Huxley Jones sculpture), Aberdeen The Rosemount Square social housing scheme was designed in Art Deco style before World War II, but only completed in 1946. Its sweepingly curved courtyard plan was influenced by Viennese municipal housing of the 1920s. Though created as social housing, the square was built out of granite at a time when the material had become costly, and also decorated with T B Huxely Jones's stylised sculptures of the elements. Inter-war social housing was a response to a housing shortage partly caused by the controls of 1915 driving private landlords out of business. The 1917 Ballantyne Report on working-class housing recommended state provision, and legislation followed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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