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London Buildings 1 : A – D

Key Architectural Developments + Designs in the British Capital, England, UK

London Buildings : A – D

Key London buildings (no photos – alphabetical, listed by building):

A

Abbey Mills, West Ham, east London
2006-
Mangera Yvars Architects

Abbott’s Wharf Housing, east London

Jestico + Whiles Architects

Abbott’s Wharf Housing, east London

Squire & Partners Architects

Adelaide House, London Bridge, City of London
1925
JJ Burnet

Adelaide Road surgery, 111 Adelaide Rd, northwest London
1992
Pentarch

Adelphi project, London

Robert Adam, Architect

Alban Gate, 125 London Wall, City of London
1987-92
Terry Farrell & Company

Albert Memorial, Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens, West London
1872-76
George Gilbert Scott

Albion Riverside, Wandsworth, southwest London

Foster & Partners

Aldermanbury Square – offices
2007
Eric Parry Architects
Moorgate buildings

Aldgate Masterplan
2006
Arup Associates, Fletcher Priest + West 8 Landscape Architects

Alexander Palace, north London

Alexandra Road Housing
1969
Neave Brown

Alie Street, London
2006
Hamiltons Architects

All Saints Church – reconstruction, Rosendale Rd, West Dulwich, southeast London
2006
Thomas Ford & Partners
£6.9m

Allies and Morrison office, London
2004
Allies and Morrison Architects

Alpine House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, southwest London
2006
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Ambulatory Cancer Care Centre, Totttenham Court Road, central-north London
2005
Hopkins Architects

American Embassy

Eero Saarinen
Mayfair building

1 America Square, City of London
1988
Renton Howard Wood Levin – RHWL

Aquatics Centre, London Olympics site – project
2006-
Zaha Hadid Architects

Arcadia Shopping Centre + Tower, Ealing, west London
2007-
HKR masterplan + various buildings; Foster & Partners; John Pardey Architects

Architecture Foundation, South Bank / Bankside 123, Southwark, south London
architecture competition 2005; 2006-08
Zaha Hadid with Allies & Morrison Architects
‘The Prow’, on behalf of Land Securities, part-funded by Arts Council + CABE

Archway Masterplan, north London
2007-
Design: BDP Architects

Ark, Hammersmith, west London
1989-1992
Ralph Erskine Architects
The Ark London

Arrowhead development – twin towers, Canary Wharf
2007-
SOM
Planning permission granted May 2007
26 & 16 storeys mixed-use development

Arup Offices, Finsbury Avenue
1982-84
Arup Associates

Arup Offices, Fitzrovia, London
2004
Sheppard Robson

Ashburton Learning village, Croydon, southwest London, England
2006
Penoyre Prasad Architects
£25m PFI project

Ashburton Triangle
2007
HOK Sport
Holloway Road housing

Asprey, Bond St, West End

Foster & Partners
Bond Street buildings

Axe Street development, Barking, east London
2007-
Jestico + Whiles

Aylesbury Estate – Info Shop, Southwark, south London
2007-
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

B

BAA Headquarters, Heathrow
1998
Niels Torp Architects

Bank of England (Former), City of London

John Soane

Bankside 1,2 & 3 – towers, Southwark Bridge Road, Bankside, south London

Allies & Morrison

Banqueting House, Whitehall, central London
1619-22(?)
Inigo Jones

Barts & Royal Hospital, London
HOK Architects
2006-
New Barts & The Royal London Hospital: 7 storeys high

Bastion House, Wellington Street, Covent Garden

Dixon.Jones

Bata Shoe Factory, Tilbury, east London

Vladimir Karfik

Battersea Power Station, Wandsworth, west London
Rafael Viñoly
Battersea Power Station London

Battersea Weave Office Building, London, UK
2004-10
UN Studio Architects

BBC – Broadcasting House
1932
Val Myer

BBC – Broadcasting House redevelopment
2003-
Sir Richard MacCormac [MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects]
from early 2006
Sheppard Robson Architects

BBC White City, northwest London

Design: Foreign Office Architects

Bear Gardens, Bankside, south London

Munkenbeck & Marshall

Bear Lane, Bankside, south London

Panter Hudspith

Bear Stearns HQ, 5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London
2007
HOK International

Bedfont Lakes – New Square building, Feltham
1989-92
Hopkins Architects

Bedford Park
1875-
Richard Norman Shaw

BedZed, south west London

Bill Dunster Architects

Beetham tower – proposed, 1 Blackfriars Road, Southbank, southeast London
2006-
Ian Simpson Architects
Planning approved Jul 2007 – 52 storeys – orig. 68 storeys
261-bed hotel, 96 flats, public viewing deck on top, restaurants, bars, spa

Bennet’s Courtyard – housing, Merton Abbey Mills, south London
2005
Feilden Clegg Bradley

40 Berkeley Square, London, W1
2004
Hamiltons Architects

Bermondsey Square – mixed-use development, southeast London

Munkenbeck & Marshall

Bernie Grant Centre, Tottenham, east London
2007
Adjaye/Associates

Bexley Academy

Foster & Partners

Big Ben

Billingsgate Securities Market, City of London
1988
Richard Rogers Partnership
Billingsgate Market

Biosciences Innovation Centre – Queen Mary College London, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, east London
2007-08
NBBJ Architects
£28m

Biota! Aquarium, Silvertown, Newham, east London
2007-
Terry Farrell

Bishops Square project, Spitalfields, City of London
2008
Matthew Lloyd Architects

201 Bishopsgate, City of London
2007/08
SOM Architects

20B Bisterne Avenue, Waltham Forest, east London
1990
Wickham & Associates

1 Blackfriars Road – Beetham tower, east London

Ian Simpson Architects
52 storeys

20 Blackfriars Road – tower

Wilkinson Eyre Architects

231-241 Blackfriars Road – mixed-use development, east London

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects
14 storeys

Bluebird Garage – redevelopment

Design: Conran Roche

Boodle & Dunthorne, 1 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge

Eva Jiricna Architects
London Jewellers

Borough Road Chapel, Borough Road, south London

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

Bracken House, City of London
1987-92
Michael Hopkins & Partners

Brent Reading Centre, Brentfield Road, NW10
1993
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Brewery Square, Clerkenwell, central – east London
2003
Hamiltons Architects

Brick House, London W2
2005
Caruso St John Architects
Brick House London – Stirling Prize nominee 2006

Brick Leaf House, Hampstead, north London
1999-2003
Woolf Architects
private house

Brit Oval Cricket Ground Stand, Kennington, south London

Miller Partnership

British Film Institute, central London

David Chipperfield Architects

British Library – Holborn Reading Room, 25 Southampton Buildings, WC2
1902
Sir John Taylor

British Library (New), north central London

Design: Colin St John Wilson

British Library – Centre for Conservation, north London
2007
Long & Kentish with Colin St John Wilson

British Museum, north central London
1823-47
Sir Robert Smirke

British Museum Great Court, north central London

Foster & Partners

British Museum Conservation + Exhibition Spaces, Bloomsbury
2007-11
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners

Broadgate, City of London
1984-91
Arup Associates with Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Broadgate Tower – see 201 Bishopsgate above
2007/08
SOM Architects

Broadway Estate – self-build housing, Tilbury, east London
2003
Sergiston Bates

Brompton Road – Apartments, west London
2002
Hamiltons Architects

Brunswick Centre

Patrick Hodgkinson

Brunswick Centre
redevelopment 2005-06
Levitt Bernstein Architects
£20m

BT Tower orig Telecom Tower (GPO tower), Holland St, north central London
1961
Eric Bedford & G. R. Yeats
BT Tower London

Buckingham Palace, The Mall, west central London
1703; 1820’s
John Nash
Buckingham Palace London

Buckingham Palace Ticket Office, Green Park, west London, England
1994-95
Michael Hopkins & Partners

Burbage Road – contemporary house, North Dulwich, London
1998
Panter Hudspith Architects

Butlers Wharf, off Shad Thames, Bermondsey, southeast London
1989 redevelopment
Design: Conran Roche

C

Caledonian Road building, north London
2007
Tim Foster Architects
Caledonian Road building

Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd and Finchley Rd, north London
2004
Tony Fretton Architects

Camden Roundhouse Redevelopment, Camden, north London
2006
John McAslan Architects

Camden Sainsburys + Housing, Camden, north London
1989
Nicholas Grimshaw
Camden buildings

Camera Press – photographic agency, London
1993
Panter Hudspith Architects

Canada Water – Bus Station, Southwark, south London

Eva Jiricna Architects Ltd
Canada Water Station

Canada Water Library, off Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe, southeast London

Piers Gough (CZWG)

Canada Water – Masterplan, southeast London
2000
Stephen Hodder Architects

Canary Wharf Tower, Isle of Dogs, east London
1988-91
Cesar Pelli
Canary Wharf building

Canary Wharf Tube Station – Jubilee Line Extension
2000
Foster & Partners
Canary Wharf station

Canning Town – Masterplanning project, Newham, London, England
2007-
Erick van Egeraat Architects

Cannon Street Railway Station Regeneration
2007-10
Foggo Associates
£360m; office & retail development

Cascades Apartment Tower, 2-4 West Ferry Rd, Isle of Dogs, east London
1986-87
CZWG Architects

Castlebar – private house, London W5
2006
De Matos Storey Ryan

Castle House, Elephant & Castle, south London
2005
Hamiltons Architects
43 storeys

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, central London

Edwin Lutyens Architect

Central School of Speech and Drama: Extension
2006: Phase 1
Jestico and Whiles Architects

Central St Giles redevelopment, London
2007-

Developer: Stanhope; £450m

Centre for Lifelong Learning, Blackstock Rd, Finsbury Park, north London

Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Centre Point, Oxford St, north central London

Richard Seifert, Architect
London tower

Chambers Wharf, Bermondsey, southeast London

Ian Simpson Architects
approx. 700 residential units

Channel 4 Television Headquarters, Horseferry Road, St James’ Park, West End
1991-94
Richard Rogers Partnership

Charing Cross Station + offices – Embankment Place, Villers St, central London
1990
Terry Farrell & Partners
Charing Cross Station London

Charterhouse – Sheltered Housing, Charterhouse, City of London, England
1994-2000
Hopkins Architects

Chelsea Barracks masterplan, west london
2007
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Chelsea College of Art & Design – Extension + Redevelopment, Millbank, London
2007-
Allies & Morrison

Chelsea FC – East Stand, Stamford Bridge, Chelsea
1974
Darbourne & Darke

Chelsea Harbour, Lots Rd, Chelsea, southwest London
1986-88
Moxley, Jenner & Partners
£150m

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Fulham Rd, Chelsea, southwest London
1993
Sheppard Robson Architects
£177m

Chelsea Wharf, London SW10
2002
Hamiltons Architects

21 Chesham Place, Belgravia, south west London
2006-07
Foster & Partners

China Wharf housing, southeast London
1988
CZWG Architects

Chiswick House Garden Café
2007-
Caruso St John

Chiswick Park Building 5

Richard Rogers Partnership

Christ Church, Spitalfields, East End
1715-29
Nicholas Hawksmoor Architect
Christ Church Spitalfields Restoration
Purcell Miller Tritton Architects

The Circle, Queen Elizabeth St, Bermondsey, southeast London
1987-89
CZWG Architects

Circus Restaurant, London, England

David Chipperfield Architects

Citigroup Centre, Canary Wharf
2001
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Adamson Associates

City House, Britton St, Smithfield, City of London
1988
CZWG Architects

City Inn Westminster
2002-03
Bennetts Associates
European Hotel Design Awards 2003 : Best New Hotel

City & Islington College – Business Development Centre, Camden Rd, Holloway, north London
2006
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Competition entry, 2000, by Stephen Hodder Architects

City Lit, 1-10 Keeley St, Camden, north London
2005
Allies & Morrison

City of London Academy: PM’s Award Winner 2006

151 City Road, London, UK
2007
SMC Alsop
43-storey tower

City Road Basin tower scheme, Islington, northeast London
2007-
Bennetts Associates

Clissold Leisure Centre, Hackney, east London
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects

Clore Gallery, Tate Gallery, London
1980-85
James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd then Bain + Bevington Architects Ltd
Clore Gallery at Tate

’The Cloud’ – Walbrook Square, City of London
2006-
Foster & Partners / Jean Nouvel Architects
for Legal & General

Clove Building, Bermondsey, London
1990
Allies and Morrison Architects
Home to Conran & Partners offices

Cochrane Theatre – redevelopment, Southampton Row, City of London
1991
Robinson Thorne Architects

Coin Street housing

Lifschutz Davidson Architects

Commonwealth Institute, west London

RMJM
Grade II* listed : saved from potential demolition 2007

Commonwealth Institute Apartments
2007-
Foster & Partners
£150m approx.

Control Centre & Lifting Bridges, Canary Wharf, east London
1990
Alsop & Störmer
£4m

31 Corsica St, Highbury, northeast London
1991
Paxton Locher Architects

County Hall
1922
Ralf Knott
Grade II* listed
former LCC & GLC offices

Cricklewood Gate
2007-
Carey Jones Architects
1.4ha mixed-use development

Crystal Palace, south 1851, moved 1852, burnt 1936
1851, moved 1852, burnt 1936
Joseph Paxton

Crystal Palace Recreation
2006?
proposed by Architect Ray Hall

Crystal Palace Bandstand
1997
Ian Ritchie Architects

Curzon Soho, central London
1998
Panter Hudspith Architects

Customs & Public Health Building, northwest London
1993
British Rail – Architecture and Design Group

D

Daily Express Building

Owen Williams, Architect

Darwin Centre Phase Two, Natural History Museum, west London

C. F. Møller Architects

David Mellor Offices & Showroom, Shad Thames, southeast London
1988-91; later converted to Conran shop + offices
Michael Hopkins & Partners

The Deckhouse, 9 Thames Reach, Rainville Rd, Hammersmith, west London
1991
John Young

Design Museum, Shad Thames
1989
Design: Conran Roche – now Conran & Partners
Design Museum London

New Design Museum
proposed, est. 2007-
Bankside, adj. Tate Modern

Dirty House, Shoreditch, east London
2001-02
Adjaye/Associates

DLR Stations, east London
2003-05
Weston Williamson
Four Docklands Light Railway stations

Docklands Light Railway, Beckton Extension, east London
1994
Ahrends Burton Koralek – ABK

Dolce and Gabbana shop, Bond St, London, England

David Chipperfield Architects

Donnybrook housing, east London
2005/06
Design: Peter Barber Architect

Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, West End

Owen Williams, Architect

Dulwich Gallery, south London
1811-14
Sir John Soane Architect

Dulwich Picture Gallery, southeast London
2001
Rick Mather Architects

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