Meaning of streets in the sky | Babel Free

Definitions

Architecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“In the UK, the concept of 'streets in the sky' was first developed by the New Brutalist architects, Alison and Peter Smithson, in their widely published entry for the Corporation of London's Golden Lane Competition (1951).”

CEFR level