Started by Jess Wong (@jess_w) ·
Ian Fleming named a Bond villain after a brutalist architect
Fleming supposedly disliked Goldfinger's modernist houses in Hampstead. Goldfinger was not amused. Trellick Tower went from 'tower of terror' to listed building with expensive flats.
5 sources · 26 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “goldfinger named after erno goldfinger”
- Ended at
- Balfron Tower
The Trail
- “goldfinger named after erno goldfinger” (google.com)
- Ernő Goldfinger (en.wikipedia.org)
- Trellick Tower (en.wikipedia.org)
- Goldfinger (novel) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Balfron Tower (en.wikipedia.org)
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