 He meanwhile worked under Leslie Martin as a senior architect at the Architects ' Department of the London County Council ( LCC ) from 1949 to 1962 . During this period , he oversaw the design of two neighbouring schools in North Hammersmith , now known as the Phoenix School ; he unsuccessfully tried to have the school named after Morris . He was also involved in the design and construction of several modernist , high @-@ rise post @-@ war housing estates , namely Bethnal Green 's Avebury Estate and Kennington 's Brandon Estate , personally securing a sculpture by Henry Moore for the latter . In his final years in this position he focused on estates in south London , working on Deptford 's Pepys Estate and the first designs for what became Thamesmead . 
