answers: 1974
context: polyethylene core; and Reynolux aluminium sheets. Beneath these, and fixed to the outside of the walls of the flats, was Celotex RS5000 polyisocyanurate (PIR) thermal insulation. The work was carried out by Harley Facades of Crowborough, East Sussex, at a cost of £2.6 million. Nigel Whitbread was lead architect for the Grenfell Tower. In an interview with Constantine Gras, quoted in the Guardian, he said that "he was born in Kenton, his parents had a grocers shop on St Helen's Gardens, North Kensington. He was educated at Sloane Grammar school and then got a position with the architects Douglas Stephen </s> Grenfell Tower Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England whose remains still stand following a severe fire in June 2017. 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 to the south of the building; the road was named after Field Marshal Lord Grenfell, a senior British Army officer. The building's top 20 storeys consisted of 120 flats, with 6 per floor—2 flats with 1 bedroom each and 4 flats with 2 bedrooms each—with a </s> ground floor contains a drawing room, a dining room and a library, while the first floor has two bedrooms and an armoury. Its exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work, particularly the McConnochie House in Cardiff and Castell Coch. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1949. Burges bought the lease on the plot of land in 1875. The house was built by the Ashby Brothers, with interior decoration by members of Burges's long-standing team of craftsmen including Thomas Nicholls and Henry Stacy Marks. By 1878 the house was largely complete, although interior decoration and
question: when was the grenfell tower in london built