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Marathon House
Marathon House is a landmark building completed in 1960 (then Castrol House), it exhibited the first use of an American-style fully-glazed curtain wall in England. It is high and has 15 floors. The building was influenced by New York City's Lever House (1951-2). Description The twenty years following the second world war saw an extraordinary period of reconstruction as bomb-damaged towns and cities were rebuilt and as new designs and construction techniques were adopted. Marathon House exemplified the trend, arriving on the cusp of sixties, with such modern conveniences as lighting without switches that responded to ambient light. It represented a post-war reprise of the American invasion of London exemplified earlier by the construction using new steel frame techniques of Selfridges in Oxford Street (1908) but now with added vertical vigour as new towers sprung up in quick succession. The architects, Gollins Melvin Ward and Partners, in association with Casson, Conder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Westminster
The City of Westminster is a London borough with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Greater London, England. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It contains a large part of central London, including most of the West End of London, West End, such as the major shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street, and the entertainment district of Soho. Many London landmarks are within the borough, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Westminster Cathedral, 10 Downing Street, and Trafalgar Square. The borough also has a number of major Westminster parks and open spaces, parks and open spaces, including Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park, and most of Regent's Park. Away from central London the borough also includes various inner suburbs, including St John's Wood, Maida Vale, Bayswater, Belgravia and Pimlico. The borough had a population of 204,300 at the 2021 census. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye () is a Modern architecture, modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.Courland, Robert. ''Concrete Planet''. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY. (2012) page 326. As an exemplar of Le Corbusier's "Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture, five points" for new constructions, the villa is representative of the origins of modern architecture and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of the International style (architecture), International style. The house was originally built as a country retreat for the Savoye family. After being purchased by the neighbouring school, it became the property of the Republic of France, French state in 1958. Due to many different problems it was rarely inhabited. After surviving several proposals to demolish it, it was designated as an of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
