Chrisp Street Clock Tower Model

Architect: Frederick Gibberd 
Construction: 1952
Floors: Eight 
Function: Clock tower 
Borough: Tower Hamlets

Our Model London series of paper models brings the city to you. Cut, craft and learn about some spectacular London buildings whilst building your own London Skyline.

This modernist clock tower marks the arrival to Chrisp Street Market, a pedestrianised open-air marketplace conceived as the commercial centre of the new Lansbury Estate, England’s first example of planned urban renewal in the post-war period.

Net design: Sebastian Harding 

Illustration: George Allen & Monika Marinova