{"id":4777,"date":"2011-07-27T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2011-07-27T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:21:17","slug":"almighty-pile-of-bricks-on-acre-lane-brixton-sw2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-on-acre-lane-brixton-sw2\/","title":{"rendered":"Almighty pile of bricks on Acre Lane, Brixton, SW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-acre-lane-sw2-01.jpg\" alt=\"Almighty pile of bricks, Acre Lane\/Kings Avenue, SW2 \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now reduced to an\u00a0impressively\u00a0high pile of bricks is this old factory that stood on the corner of Acre Lane and Kings Avenue, Brixton, SW2.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-acre-lane-sw2-03.jpg\" alt=\"Almighty pile of bricks, Acre Lane\/Kings Avenue, SW2 \" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Google street view shows the factory as it once was. It&#8217;s not exactly inspiring architecture, and I&#8217;m guessing that it might have been\u00a0constructed\u00a0in the 1930s, or perhaps a bit later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-acre-lane-sw2-05.jpg\" alt=\"Almighty pile of bricks, Acre Lane\/Kings Avenue, SW2 \" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=SW2+5UA&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=51.461501,-0.129132&amp;spn=0,0.010353&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=43.528905,82.089844&amp;z=17&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=51.459533,-0.129133&amp;panoid=yVNitm7A3EqIBnzNDGSq1g&amp;cbp=13,121.9,,0,-4.85\" target=\"_blank\">Google Street View<\/a> of the Kings Avenue, SW4 elevation, showing that the building was already semi-derelict.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-acre-lane-sw2-04.jpg\" alt=\"Almighty pile of bricks, Acre Lane\/Kings Avenue, SW2 \" \/><\/p>\n<p>A night view of the almighty pile of bricks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-acre-lane-sw2-02.jpg\" alt=\"Almighty pile of bricks, Acre Lane\/Kings Avenue, SW2 \" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s how it used to look.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea what&#8217;s going to built in this site once the almighty pile of bricks has been removed, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to find the words &#8220;lifestyle,&#8221; &#8220;luxury&#8221; and &#8220;urban living&#8221; popping up in its\u00a0description.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=SW2+5UA&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=51.459756,-0.129004&amp;spn=0.010549,0.025792&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=43.528905,82.089844&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Map location<\/a>] &#8211; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Brixton photos<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now reduced to an\u00a0impressively\u00a0high pile of bricks is this old factory that stood on the corner of Acre Lane and Kings Avenue, Brixton, SW2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,194,17,193],"tags":[199,1191],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/almighty-pile-of-bricks-acre-lane-sw2-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}