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London - Medway Court, Holborn 2015-06-04

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 21:29:43 +0000

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Seen from Leigh Street. Built 1949-55 to designs of Denis Clarke-Hall for the borough of St Pancras; two further blocks were intended. The ground-floor shops have a concave façade contrasting with the convex façade of the flats above. The fronts of the lower balconies have abstract decoration.

Cambridge Station from SW 2015-06-04

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:28:18 +0000

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Built in 1845 to the designs of Francis Thompson (or possibly Sancton Wood); the arcade was originally open, forming an entrance loggia, and was matched by a similar one on the platform side. The current treatment of the entrance front dates from 1971. English Heritage listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1343683 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp304-313 (item 85); 1950s view showing part of the arcade still open: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/plate-298 .

London - 30 Russell Square 2015-05-07

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sun, 31 May 2015 16:50:09 +0000

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From SW. 1913-14; designed by Sir John James Burnet for the Royal Institute of Chemistry but now part of London University; recent top-floor extension. I have walked past this building many times without standing back to look at it; I do find that having my camera out, and being alert for buildings worth photographing, makes me look at things with a fresh eye. The combination of classicism with asymmetry seems quite surprising for the date; I had always assumed that the building was inter-war. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246378 .

London - Brunswick Centre 2015-05-07

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sun, 31 May 2015 16:51:09 +0000

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The Marchmont Street frontage from the S. Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, with Sir Leslie Martin, from 1959 onwards, but not built until 1968-72, by which time Hodgkinson was the sole architect. Described by the Buildings of England: London 4 (1998), p.328, as "London's first influential megastructure" combining housing, shops and other facilities in a single structure. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246230 .

London - Great Northern Hotel, King's Cross 2014-08-21

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:15:50 +0000

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Built to designs of Lewis Cubitt, 1854. The curved plan reflects the original alignment of Pancras Road. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113244 .

London - Mecklenburgh Square from NW 2015-05-20

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 30 May 2015 12:12:06 +0000

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Built from c.1808 to the designs of Joseph Kay, who was surveyor to the Foundling Hospital estate, with the terrace of houses treated as a palace façade emphasized at the centre and ends. Some of the houses were rebuilt in facsimile following damage in World War II. English Heritage listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113118 .

London - the north end of Whidborne Street 2015-05-19

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 30 May 2015 12:12:06 +0000

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Of the early C19 buildings in the foreground, only the public house on the extreme right is listed, although the mews workshops on the left strike me as an interesting survival. On the detached single-bay house, see George Rex's photograph here. The clock tower of Grade I-listed St Pancras Station is in the background, while the 1973-7 extension to Camden Town Hall is largely obscured by a tree.

London - School of Oriental and African Studies 2015-05-07

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sun, 31 May 2015 16:50:09 +0000

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The E end of the building, designed by Charles Holden, and dated 1940. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1379007 .

London - King's Cross station 2014-07-08

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:16:14 +0000

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The former entrance façade (built 1851-2 to designs of Lewis Cubitt) seen through the vault of the concourse designed by John McAslan, engineered by Arup, and opened in 2012. List description for original building: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .

London - King's Cross Station, looking S in the W bay of the trainshed 2015-04-29

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:17:34 +0000

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London - King's Cross station 2014-06-17

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:18:44 +0000

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The S front seen from the terrace of St Pancras station. Built 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt, who wrote that "The building will depend for its effect on the largeness of some of the features, its fitness for its purpose and its characteristic expression of that purpose" [Steven Parissien , The English Railway Station (2014), pp.11-12]. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .

London - King's Cross station, looking N in the W bay of the trainshed 2015-06-04

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:31:58 +0000

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Built in 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt. The arches supporting the roof were originally of laminated timber, but were replaced with wrought-iron plate in 1886-7. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .

I think that a fault had resulted in this half of the station being virtually deserted - the train that I was about to catch usually leaves from one of these platforms, but departed from platform 0, on the east side of the station, to the confusion of people who were expecting to find a different train there.

London - Brunswick Centre 2015-06-04

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:31:57 +0000

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Detail of the Marchmont Street frontage from SW. Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, with Sir Leslie Martin, from 1959 onwards, but not built until 1968-72, by which time Hodgkinson was the sole architect. Described by the Buildings of England: London 4 (1998), p.328, as "London's first influential megastructure" combining housing, shops and other facilities in a single structure. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246230 .

London - King's Cross station concourse 2015-06-04

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 20:28:18 +0000

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Designed by John McAslan, engineered by Arup, and opened in 2012.

Looking N at the exit that leads towards St Pancras International. The couple in the centre of the photo were eating their lunch, and showed no sign of moving, so must be regarded as a feature of the photo, rather than as an obstruction!

Royston - 7 and 9 Old North Road 2014-10-30

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:58:01 +0000

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A somewhat eccentric Victorian pair; the corner windows by the front doors strike me as particularly unusual. Described as late Victorian is this description of the recent extension to no. 9, just visible on the far left; definitely in existence by 1887 as they appear on the large scale Ordnance Survey map published in that year.

London - British Medical Association, Burton Street front from NE 2014-10-15

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:35:48 +0000

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Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens from 1911 as the headquarters of the British Theosophical Society, with which his wife was closely involved, but incomplete when requisitioned by the War Office during World War I and completed for the British Medical Association in 1923-5. Presumably a carved tablet was intended above the central window, with carved features at the ends of the façade, but these have never been executed and have been left as what the listing calls "boasted work": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1378968 .

London - Camden Town Hall 2014-10-30

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:37:20 +0000

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1934-7, to the designs of A. J. Thomas, who was Lutyens' office manager until 1935. Described by the Buildings of England: London, 4 (1998), p.354, as "a cautious neo-Palladian design, with some Lutyens mannerisms". Portland stone cladding over a steel frame. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1379162 .

London - Woburn Walk, Holborn, from W 2014-10-01

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:15:55 +0000

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Street of shops with accommodation over, designed by Thomas Cubitt, and built c.1822 for the Bedford Estate, on its border, says the Buldings of England: London, 4 (1998), p.330, "so that the shops would not disturb the prime residential areas". As the English Heritage listing notes, "this architecturally coherent and well surviving group of shopfronts, with Duke's Road, is an exceptional composition". List description (S side): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1379210 . The 19th-century lamp standard is separately listed: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1379211 .

Royston station - former corn mill 2014-09-17

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:36:26 +0000

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Viewed from the railway station footbridge.

London - Burton Street, Holborn, looking S 2014-10-15

nobody@ipernity.com (sps1955) — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:30:19 +0000

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Terraces by the builder James Burton (1761-1837), begun in 1809 and completed by 1820, face each other across the street. The buildings closing the street at its southern end are not listed and do not feature in the Survey of London; they appear to be recent "contextual" infill. List descriptions for the Burton terraces (from right to left): list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1272397 ; list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1272398 ; list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1272399 ; list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1272400 . Survey of London: www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65565#s7 .