The Brunswick Shopping Centre

I’ve stayed here a couple of times with a friend who is lucky enough to have an apartment in the complex. It’s a fantastic place to visit, the integration of the residential community and the commercial area is pretty unique. The Japanese restaurant there is really very good, and the shops manage to be stylish and quirky at the same time.
An interesting, if a little morbid, fact is that the elevators are large enough to accommodate a coffin horizontally! An architect friend of mine explained that there was a much higher level of design consideration given to social housing, back in the era that the buildings were constructed.
Unfortunately, this concern doesn’t seem to continue into the present and there residents are up in arms about the latest planning application that the owners of the building have submitted (google ‘Brunswick eyesore’ for more details).
Definitely worth a visit, don’t forget to take in the British Museum and the park just opposite… it has its own petting zoo!

Every
Sunday afternoon before sun sitting after a half day staying in church service
our family always dropping her to rest and to enjoy for a moment. After a very
long weekdays in works this is the moment are we always looking for bonding
with my family. This place was now part of our lively basis. I love this place.

The Brunswick Centre is really a unique place. It is both relaxing and vibrant, and it has a great atmosphere similar to that of a shopping piazza in a lively foreign city.
The architecture is very striking and light, further adding to the unique quality of the Brunswick Centre. Prince Charles may not have liked it years ago, but he can certainly eat his words now…
There is a decent range of shops and restaurants to visit, not to mention the Waitrose supermarket, which is the largest Waitrose in central London.
The centre is very accessible for wheelchairs. It is on raised ground, yet there is ramp access up to it. The rest of the centre has flat floors so all the shops and restaurants are accessible too.
There are benches located around the middle of the centre, and it’s lovely to sit there on a sunny day with a drink and watch the world go by. At Christmas time the centre is decorated and lit beautifully.

i live in the brunswick, i grew up here, i love the fact that the demographics in the area has flipped since the refurbishment. used to be working class and asian now a waitrose turns up and all the posh lot come and start talking about the architecture and how cool the building is. funny they were no where to be seen when there was not a waitrose in the shopping complex.
saying that apart from the annoying middle class trendy wannabes the generic boring shops are needed and are quite useful from time to time. very happy cause my flat is worth loads now thanks lemmings.

I went to The Brunswick quite a few times last year and just visited again today, and it hasn’t changed, which is a good thing! Its a nice little shopping centre anchored by a Waitrose and has some decent places to grab a bite, as well as to shop if you’re not looking to go to a high street or to Oxford Street. I’m not sure what the schedule is for the outdoor food area, but it seems at least on Saturdays, lots of food stalls open up, serving up anything from paella to cupcakes. I unfortunately have only tried the cupcake stall that set up there last year and it was okay (I have high cupcake standards, however). If you’re at a loss of something to do one day, it would never hurt to take a look at what The Brunswick has to offer :)

The Brunswick ist ein gemischter Wohn– und Geschäftskomplex aus den 1960er Jahren, der sich im Londoner Stadtbezirk Camden ungefähr auf der Grenze der Altbezirke St. Pancras und Holborn befindet. Direkt daneben befindet sich der U-​Bahnhof Russell Square.
Es handelt sich um eine Art Freiluft-​Einkaufszentrum mit den üblichen Geschäften (unter anderem Starbucks, Boots, Superdrug, Waitrose, Giraffe, French Connection, Halifax Bank, ein Kino (Renoir) sowie eine NHS-​Arztpraxis).
Direkt über den Geschäften befinden sich Wohnungen, die als eine Art Terrassenhügel, ähnlich wie bei der Berliner Schlange, gebaut wurden. Die Wohnungen waren aber schon in den 1960ern nicht so populär wie gedacht, und so wurde ein Großteil dieser in Sozialwohnungen umgewidmet.
Vor der letzten Sanierung 2007 standen viele Geschäftslokale leer. Inzwischen ist wieder Leben eingekehrt.

Mini centre commercial à deux pas du métro, assez pratique. On y trouve qques boutiques de fringues, de quoi boire un verre ou se restaurer, et de quoi faire ses courses alimentaires. Les restos sont très sympas (même si la cuisine anglaise n’est que pièce rapporté-​italien, indie, chinois, burgers), et permettent de faire une bonne halte. On peut s’y arrêter si on est dans le coin :)

Yes, this place is quite strange and pretty small as shopping centres go, but a pleasant experience if you want to escape the crowds. There are the upmarket stores Hobbs, LK Bennett, French Connection and Coast, as well as a branch of New Look and one or two others.
If your office is nearby it’s also a good place for lunch. Better to visit on a sunny day when you can sit outside one of the cafes. We went midweek. I imagine the place gets much busier at the week end as it is in the middle of a housing estate.
The Brunswick is a Grade II listed building dating back to the 1960s, turned into low-​income public housing and recently regenerated to incorporate shops, homes and leisure facilities in a miniature city. Have a look.

This is without a doubt the strangest place I’ve ever been shopping in. Really. I dont get it. It’s a housing estate, just a normal (and not very pretty) housing estate. With a bunch of shops in the middle. It’s weird.
When my friend told me it was an old estate, I just thought that they’d done it up. And they have, it’s very nice indeed. But I didn’t realise it was still an estate until I noticed the flats around the outside while I was eating my lunch. It’s weird.
Once you’ve got past the weirdness, you’ll find a handful of nice little shops (Joy, Coast, Topshop, nice posh chocolate in Chocolat Chocolat) and some pretty good restaurants — albeit a bit chainy — Strada, Carluccios, Starbucks, Patisserie Valerie.
Right over the road from Russell Square station too.
But it’s in a shopping estate. Why? It’s weird. Can’t get past the weird.

Every saturday this place has a farmers market which is absolutely fantastic. Proper sausages, fancy crisps, italian food, real ice cream, french pastry, soup, and if you get sick of that there’s Waitrose, the french chocolate shop, the pie and mash café, yo sushi, carluccio’s, strada, giraffe, gourmet burger, fcuk, office, benetton, hob and hobbs, and the Renoir cinema. And best of all there’s Skoob books, for all your second hand book shopping needs. They have a piano if you need to. Oh and on friday nights there’s something called salsa classes for would be dancers. My advice would be to get some high quality beer from waitrose, a takeaway pie from the square pie place and head to russell square for a picnic.

Located opposite Russell Square Underground Station this Grade-​II listed building is both adored and abhorred by those who live or work nearby. The site was redeveloped in 2006 at a cost of £22 million and now houses around 25 shops, 10 restraints and cafes and a cinema in addition to 560 flats. The centre serves both as an amenity for the community but also draws in crowds from around London. Almost all the shops in the open-​air centre are chain stores such as French Connection and Joy but the shopping environment is second to none especially in summer, the restraints and cafes giving a very relaxed and leisurely shopping environment. The Renoir cinema is a fantastic independent cinema showing edgy and lesser known films, in my opinion this is one of the best cinemas in London with great décor, good films and friendly service. It should also be noted that the site houses a large Waitrose supermarket, which is nothing special, though is one of the largest in the centre of London.
Overall a great shopping centre though perhaps slightly small.

Although one of the much lesser known areas for shopping, the Brunswick is very popular with those who know of it. It offers quite a few of the more high-​end of the high street shops such as Benetton, Hobbs, Joy and French Connection but also New Look and Office.
There are also many restaurants such as Yo Sushi and Carluccio’s but also lots of places where you can grab a quick bite like Crussh and Starbucks.
And even if you’re not looking to spend money it’s a nice and airy place to have a walk around — after it’s £24million renovation one could scarcely believe that the original site is actually 40 years old and grade II listed.