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Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed
Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed Stockwell Garage
Stockwell Garage is a large bus garage in Stockwell, in the London Borough of Lambeth, which opened in April 1952. At the time of construction it was Europe's largest unsupported roof span. The garage provides of unobstructed parking space a ...
, a large bus depot in Stockwell
Stockwell is a district in south west London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. It is situated south of Charing Cross. Battersea, Brixton, Clapham, South Lambeth, Oval and Kennington all border Stockwell.
History
The name S ...
, London, which opened in 1952 and is still in use.
It was founded by George Adie
George Mountford Adie (14 January 1901 – 29 July 1989) was a British architect, the co-founder (with Frederick Button) of Adie, Button and Partners in Mayfair, London.
George Mountford Adie was born in the UK on 14 January 1901. He started as ...
and Frederick Button.
In 1927, the Park Lane Hotel
The Sheraton Grand London Park Lane is a 5 Star hotel on Piccadilly, London.
The hotel opened in 1927 as The Park Lane Hotel to designs by architects Adie, Button and Partners, in a grand Art Deco style, and was constructed by the developer ...
on Piccadilly
Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Cou ...
, London, was built to their designs.
Charters, a Grade II listed art deco mansion in Sunningdale
Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading ...
, Berkshire, built in 1938 for the industrialist Frank Parkinson was designed by Adie, Button. It was built on the site of an earlier house built in the late 1860s by William Terrick Hamilton. Parkinson’s guests included Winston Churchill and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In 1949, the house was bought by Sir Montague Burton
Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885 – 21 September 1952) was the founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops.
Early life
Born Meshe David Osinsky and a Lithuanian Jew in Kurkliai, Kaunas provinc ...
. It later became a corporate headquarters and has since been redeveloped as an apartment complex and spa.
They also designed the striking art deco apartment block at 59–63 Princes Gate, London SW7.
References
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