Peter Deakins is a British architect who, following an involvement in the design and construction of

Golden Lane Estate The Golden Lane Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London. It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War. Since 1997, the estate has been protected as a group o ...

as well as the original Barbican Centre designs, later created the master plan for the

Lancaster West Estate Lancaster Road (West) Estate is a housing estate in North Kensington, west London. It is in an area known as Notting Dale which experienced V-2 bombing during the Second World War. It was built as municipal housing as part of the slum cle ...

in the mid-1960s, of which the

Grenfell Tower Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England. The tower was completed in 1974 as part of the first phase of the Lancaster West Estate. The tower was named after Grenfell Road, which ran t ...

was part. Commenting on the

Grenfell Tower fire On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. 72 people died, two later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 es ...

in July 2017, Deakins said, "I really can't get to grips with it ... it's too terrible to think about. And compared to all the high hopes when we started doing it all... it's just too horrible."

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List of projects Deakins has been involved with
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