Page Street, London

En route to the infamous Regency Cafe, I wandered down Page Street and passed these amazing chequered residences.

The chequerboard-patterned blocks were designed by Edwin Lutyens no less, and built in 1929–30. Lutyens was the great master of country houses, banks, and other grand buildings, and, famously, did the design for the Cenotaph in Whitehall. These flats were his only large-scale social housing scheme, and were done for the Westminster City Council. 

Source: http://englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/page-street-london.html