Old Street, London EC2
Squire and Partners, completed 2024
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Another upload from last months London Flickr Group Photowalk from Bethnal Green to Islington, via the Regent's Canal.
These are two of a small cluster of residential towers near Tech City in Islington. I think the building on the left is Canaletto Tower by UN Studio with the Lexicon Building by Squire and Partners in the background.
Click here for more photos from this and other London Flickr Photowalks : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72177720301569918
Our next photowalk still be held on the 8th June where we'll be venturing south of the river...... More details here if that sounds of interest : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...
From the Squire and Partners website, "Completed in 2017, the Lexicon is a residential development on the west side of City Road Basin comprising an elegant 36 storey tower – Islington’s tallest building at 117m – and a pair of low rise canalside apartment buildings set around a landscaped public courtyard. The project was designed by Squire and Partners and delivered by SOM.
Squire and Partners’ design, originally consented by Islington in 2006, established a residential-led development connected to Regent’s Canal and City Road Basin, boosting the regeneration of the area by providing over 300 apartments (of which 35% are affordable) and enhanced public spaces animated by ground floor retail and restaurant uses which extend onto the waterside. The Lexicon acts as a marker for City Road Basin, and creates a dialogue with the tall buildings of the City to the south.
Detailed post-planning by SOM, the tower features an innovative curtain wall with glass channels set within a ventilated cavity to house floor-to-ceiling glass which allows unimpeded views over London. Full-width terraces line the upper levels of the tower, while a five-story, 405-square-meter penthouse offers 360-degree views across London from all levels. Apartments in the low-rise development facing City Road Basin also have generous balconies that provide views over the water."
© D.Godliman
Opened In 1971...Once The Most Secure Cop Shop In The Country...Where Suspected Members Of The IRA And Al Qaeda Were Held...Now Being Demolished
The two completed residential towers are known as 1 Casson Square (37 storeys) and 30 Casson Square (30 storeys). Designed by Squire & Partners, they are the tallest elements within the Southbank Place masterplan. Viewed from the north end of Waterloo Bridge in the City of Westminster.
Building: The Broadway - Paragon East, London
Architect: Squire and Partners
Completed: 2022
Building: One Southbank Place, London
Architect: Squire and Partners
Completed: 2022
Squire and Partners (2017)
Squire and Partners (2015)
Francis Stree, London SW1.
Designed by J Bull and built between 1883 and 1885 as a warehouse for the Army & Navy store, the building was converted to offices by Squire and Partners 1996-2000.
Sony A7II + Contax C/Y Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm f/3.4 MM
Waterloo's Victory Arch (part of the station front - completed 1922) designed by James Robb Scott, and Elizabeth House (completed 1960) designed by John GL Poulson.
The Victory or Memorial Arch was built 1919-22. It was designed as the main foot entrance to the station at the head of an impressive flight of steps, most of which is within the building. It is in the form of a triumphal arch some three storeys and attic in height, on the butterfly plan; the main arch being flanked by side bays and with one bay canted wings. It was joined to the existing building on the left by a three bay section with recessed centre and giant order, this is not repeated to the right. Balustraded parapet with attic hidden behind. Stonework with heavy rustication in the centre. Sculpture - Bronze plaques under the arch bear the names of 585 LSWR employees who lost their lives in WWI, but the chief features are two sculptural groups, one dedicated to Bellona and dated 1914 and the other, dated 1918, to Peace, under the names of the greatest fields of battle set around a glazed arch set with a clock in a sunburst, and surmounted on the roof by Britannia. Prominent on the concourse side of the arch is the name of the company. The sculptor was the other wise little known Charles Whiffen. The special significance of the monument within the post-First World War genre is that the LSWR staff themselves were, uniquely, consulted on its design. Pylons with iron lamps flank the staircase.
[Historic England]
Elizabeth House will be demolished and replaced with a new development by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris:
The public realm is transformed in four key ways. Victory Arch Square, a gently sloping pedestrian space, improves access to the station and provides an appropriate setting for the Victory Arch. The Waterloo Curve is a new retail lined pedestrian street that runs the length of the site and provides access to the station. The Promenade allows access across from the station’s concourse level through a public garden and down into the new Waterloo Square, an 18m high cut through the centre of the site.
[www.ahmm.co.uk]
Taken on tour around Waterloo
Historic Tour of Waterloo Station
(July 2022)
Put on your walking shoes and experience everything which has played a part in the 173-year life of the Waterloo Station. London Waterloo was originally opened in 1848 and is one of Britain’s busiest train stations, reaching 99.4 million journeys a year. On this tour, you will experience hidden pieces of history, including the original Waterloo News cinema, the Battle of Waterloo Medallion, and the World War One and Two Memorial. Join Blue Badge Tour guide, Rachel Kolsky, and see how today’s society has embraced Waterloo's uniqueness through iconic film locations, luxury restaurants, retail units and contemporary graffiti art murals.
[Network Rail]
Waterloo Car Park, between Waterloo Station and Elizabeth House.
Elizabeth House (completed 1960) designed by John GL Poulson, and will be demolished and replaced with a new development by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Historic Tour of Waterloo Station
(July 2022)
Put on your walking shoes and experience everything which has played a part in the 173-year life of the Waterloo Station. London Waterloo was originally opened in 1848 and is one of Britain’s busiest train stations, reaching 99.4 million journeys a year. On this tour, you will experience hidden pieces of history, including the original Waterloo News cinema, the Battle of Waterloo Medallion, and the World War One and Two Memorial. Join Blue Badge Tour guide, Rachel Kolsky, and see how today’s society has embraced Waterloo's uniqueness through iconic film locations, luxury restaurants, retail units and contemporary graffiti art murals.
[Network Rail]
Waterloo Car Park, between Waterloo Station and Elizabeth House.
Elizabeth House (completed 1960) designed by John GL Poulson, and will be demolished and replaced with a new development by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Historic Tour of Waterloo Station
(July 2022)
Put on your walking shoes and experience everything which has played a part in the 173-year life of the Waterloo Station. London Waterloo was originally opened in 1848 and is one of Britain’s busiest train stations, reaching 99.4 million journeys a year. On this tour, you will experience hidden pieces of history, including the original Waterloo News cinema, the Battle of Waterloo Medallion, and the World War One and Two Memorial. Join Blue Badge Tour guide, Rachel Kolsky, and see how today’s society has embraced Waterloo's uniqueness through iconic film locations, luxury restaurants, retail units and contemporary graffiti art murals.
[Network Rail]
Elizabeth House (completed 1960) designed by John GL Poulson, and One Casson Square (completed 2020) designed by Squire and Partners
Elizabeth House will be demolished and replaced with a new development by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris:
The public realm is transformed in four key ways. Victory Arch Square, a gently sloping pedestrian space, improves access to the station and provides an appropriate setting for the Victory Arch. The Waterloo Curve is a new retail lined pedestrian street that runs the length of the site and provides access to the station. The Promenade allows access across from the station’s concourse level through a public garden and down into the new Waterloo Square, an 18m high cut through the centre of the site.
[www.ahmm.co.uk]
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Taken on tour around Waterloo
Historic Tour of Waterloo Station
(July 2022)
Put on your walking shoes and experience everything which has played a part in the 173-year life of the Waterloo Station. London Waterloo was originally opened in 1848 and is one of Britain’s busiest train stations, reaching 99.4 million journeys a year. On this tour, you will experience hidden pieces of history, including the original Waterloo News cinema, the Battle of Waterloo Medallion, and the World War One and Two Memorial. Join Blue Badge Tour guide, Rachel Kolsky, and see how today’s society has embraced Waterloo's uniqueness through iconic film locations, luxury restaurants, retail units and contemporary graffiti art murals.
[Network Rail]
Building: Montcalm East, London
Architect: Squire and Partners
Completed: 2015
Architects: Squire & Partners, 2022. Looking up from Victoria Street at one of six buildings that will form The Broadway — mixed-use, predominantly luxury apartments. Replaces the 1960s New Scotland Yard building. City of Westminster, London.
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Architects: Squire and Partners, 2020, at this time the tallest residential tower in the UK and western Europe (239m AOD and 75-storeys). Viewed from the other end of South Dock, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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