Murals

NOTES: In 1962 a new conference hall, designed by the architect Hulme Chadwick, was built over the central lightwell of Hamilton House, a building of 1914, from basement to first-floor level. The new hall included an entrance foyer, small gallery and projection room. The interior seen here was decorated with brilliantly coloured abstract murals by Keith Godwin, which run the full length of the aisle walls on both sides.

NOTES: The mural painting depicts a symbolised RIBA Council surrounded by the peoples and buildings of the British Empire. The two small panels over the doors have been decorated with symbolic images, also by Bainbridge Copnall, the one on the left shows books and papers and the one on the right a series of T-squares and drawing boards.

NOTES: This was one the six office towers constructed between 1957 and 1976 which, together with the Museum of London, formed the western flank of the London Wall development. It was extensively refurbished by Sheppard Robson International in 2000 and renamed CityPoint. The designers in charge of the special, i.e. prestigious, areas of the original interiors were from the Design Research Unit. The mural shown here by Edward Bawden is 64 ft long by 14 ft high, featuring Islamic architecture and decoration.

NOTES: This was one the six office towers constructed between 1957 and 1976 which, together with the Museum of London, formed the western flank of the London Wall development. It was extensively refurbished by Sheppard Robson International in 2000 and renamed CityPoint. The designers in charge of the special, i.e. prestigious, areas of the original interiors were from the Design Research Unit. The mural shown here by Edward Bawden is 64 ft long by 14 ft high, featuring Islamic architecture and decoration.

NOTES: This was one the six office towers constructed between 1957 and 1976 which, together with the Museum of London, formed the western flank of the London Wall development. It was extensively refurbished by Sheppard Robson International in 2000 and renamed CityPoint. The designers in charge of the special, i.e. prestigious, areas of the original interiors were from the Design Research Unit. The mural shown here by Edward Bawden is 64 ft long by 14 ft high, featuring Islamic architecture and decoration.

NOTES: This was one the six office towers constructed between 1957 and 1976 which, together with the Museum of London, formed the western flank of the London Wall development. It was extensively refurbished by Sheppard Robson International in 2000 and renamed CityPoint. The designers in charge of the special, i.e. prestigious, areas of the original interiors were from the Design Research Unit. The mural shown here by Edward Bawden is 64 ft long by 14 ft high, featuring Islamic architecture and decoration.

NOTES: This was one the six office towers constructed between 1957 and 1976 which, together with the Museum of London, formed the western flank of the London Wall development. It was extensively refurbished by Sheppard Robson International in 2000 and renamed CityPoint. The designers in charge of the special, i.e. prestigious, areas of the original interiors were from the Design Research Unit. The mural shown here by Edward Bawden is 64 ft long by 14 ft high, featuring Islamic architecture and decoration.

NOTES: This was one the six office towers constructed between 1957 and 1976 which, together with the Museum of London, formed the western flank of the London Wall development. It was extensively refurbished by Sheppard Robson International in 2000 and renamed CityPoint. The designers in charge of the special, i.e. prestigious, areas of the original interiors were from the Design Research Unit. The mural shown here by Edward Bawden is 64 ft long by 14 ft high, featuring Islamic architecture and decoration.

NOTES: The P & O Building at 122 Leadenhall Street was built as a pair with the Commercial Union tower by the same architects. The P & O building was demolished in 2008, and replaced by the Leadenhall buiilding (aka the Cheesegrater) in 2014 designed by Richard Rogers.

NOTES: The mural was intended to be in the large entrance hall in the twenty-five storey block.

NOTES: The ground floor of Cranbourn Chambers at the corner of Charing Cross Road and Cranbourn Street had originally been an underground station. It was vacated in 1934 when London Transport required the space for the building of the new Leicester Square underground station. After the Second World War, the building was occupied by the British Transport Commmission, who employed Peter Moro in association with Gordon and Ursula Bowyer, to convert the ground floor into offices for the Commercial Advertising Division of the Commission.

NOTES: The murals on one side show the temperate Mediterranean and tropical climates and on the other large maps depicting routes operated by British European Airways.