NOTES: Ralph Tubbs designed the Dome of Discovery and Freeman Fox & Partners were the structural engineers. Cadbury-Brown designed the People of Britain Pavilion.
NOTES: Ralph Tubbs designed the Dome of Discovery and Freeman Fox & Partners were the structural engineers. Cadbury-Brown designed the People of Britain Pavilion.
NOTES: The Media Park 'Forum' comprises five buildings arranged around a central piazza to create a triangular block. The main facade of the buildings face onto the piazza and house the essential functions of the office buildings, while the rear facades face onto the inner courtyard. The complex houses offices, gyms, restaurants, cafes and the Media Park clinic.
NOTES: The Media Park 'Forum' comprises five buildings arranged around a central piazza to create a triangular block. The main facade of the buildings face onto the piazza and house the essential functions of the office buildings, while the rear facades face onto the inner courtyard. The complex houses offices, gyms, restaurants, cafes and the Media Park clinic.
NOTES: The Media Park 'Forum' comprises five buildings arranged around a central piazza to create a triangular block. The main facade of the buildings face onto the piazza and house the essential functions of the office buildings, while the rear facades face onto the inner courtyard. The complex houses offices, gyms, restaurants, cafes and the Media Park clinic.
SOURCE: Architectural Review, vol. 102-103, 1947 Nov., p. 165 NOTES: This design proposal for a pedestrian quadrangle featuring a public cafe was produced by the Architectural Review (appearing in an article entitled 'Westminster Regained') as part of the journal's response to the Abercrombie-Forshaw County of London Plan for the replanning of Westminster Precinct. The A.R.'s article sought to visually 'unpick' the proposed scheme through images such as the one shown here. John Brydon was the principal architect of the Treasury building (also known as Government Offices Great George Street), which was built between 1898 and 1917. Sir Charles Barry's 'Big Ben' Clock Tower was built for the Houses of Parliament in 1858.
NOTES: This secondary school provided places for 780 boys, based on the decentralized 'House' system of organization. It is now Marylebone Lower House, part of the North Westminster Community School.