Narrator: "High flats sprouting like mushrooms in cities all over Britain, the challenge of a new age with new problems solved with new ideas. The latest and tallest in London is Balfron Tower in Poplar with nearly 150 flats. 

It was designed by Ernö Goldfinger who went and lived on the 26th floor to experience for himself the problems involved in high living. He is an architect who firmly believes that the tall building is inevitably the home for the future. And is now working on a 31 storey block for the Greater London Council."

Ernö Goldfinger: "The flats I’ve built in Tower Hamlets for the Greater London Council, overlooking the river, the docks and Greenwich, try to solve, beside the normal problems of architecture and buildings, problems of economics, population density, the problems of children, teenagers and old people, and the problem of cars - the segregation of pedestrian from traffic."

Narrator: "Ernö Goldfinger’s ideas include underground garages, the tops of which will be playgrounds, and promenades outside the flats where people can meet."