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Boots head office (the D90 West building), Beeston, Nottinghamshire
RIBA3828
NOTES: This steel-framed building was designed on two floors around a central courtyard according to American out-of-town planning principles by the Chicago firm of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) in association with the London firm of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall. This extremely influential building with its use of high-class welded steel and the open-plan design led the way for the subsequent development of 'high-tech' steel office buildings for which Britain became internationally renowned. It was Grade II listed in 1996.
Design for the New headquarters of the London Electric Railway Company (later London Underground), 55 Broadway, Westminster, London: view from the north-east
RIBA4055
NOTES: Built in 1927-1929 on a triangular site, these headquarters for what is now London Underground Limited incorporated St James's Park underground station.