Legal & General Assurance Society Limited - 7 Waterloo Street, Birmingham : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Legal & General Assurance Society Limited - 7 Waterloo Street, Birmingham / ell brown
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 説明 | Saw this building on Waterloo Street a few weeks back, so wanted to come back and get shots of it.It is the Legal & General Assurance Society Limited building at 7 Waterloo Street.Close up of the front on Waterloo Street. Premier Inn is to the left of this building.The Legal & General Assurance Society Limited was established in 1836.Grade II listed office building. 1931-33 by S.N. Cooke and E. Holman for the Legal and General Assurance Society. Portland stone ashlar cladding to a steel frame structure. William Bloye reliefs on exterior. The Former Legal and General Assurance of 1931-32 by S.N. Cooke. A distinguished piece of cubic stripped classicism moving towards Modernism, quite unlike his other contemporary work, and probably by his assistant E. Holman. A square block, five bays by five storeys. Portland stone with bands of green instead of cornice. Recessed lantern-like attic. Windows set behind piers with very slightly concave faces, which rise to more deeply concave-sided pinnacles. Their strong vertical emphasis is only just controlled by the almost sheer square corner piers. Near their tops, relief panels by William Bloye: simplified, hieratic figures of Wisdom, Fortitude, Charity, and Faith, sharply cut in low relief, their rectangular frames emphasizing the geometric quality of the building. Plain ground floor; central panel with deeply moulded lintel to Waterloo Street with a central panel of Temple Bar, the Legal and General emblem, also by Bloye. Entrance to the upper storeys in a six storey south west tower. Original cylindrical lanterns.From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.Commercial offices. 1931-33 by S.N. Cooke and E. Holman for the Legal and General Assurance Society. Portland stone ashlar cladding to a steel frame structure. PLAN: Large banking hall on left with public entrance on the front and small courtyard to right to side entrance to offices above. Moderne style with some stylised classical and Egyptian features. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys and attic. 5-bay north front. Tall ground floor with cornice, Egyptian style portico at centre with coved cornice, roundel with emblem and bronze double doors and with two large plain windows either side with metal-frames with margin glazing bars; inscription above the doorway carved in large letters with serifs: LEGAL & GENERAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED. The 4 storeys above has pronounced piers between the windows surmounted by stylised urns on the parapet, the end comer piers are broader and have relief carvings by William Bloye at the top; small stylised rosettes above first and second floor windows; at 4th floor level a banded frieze which continues around the building to the similar right-hand [west] side, also of 5 bays but without the central doorway; set back behind the parapet the plainer attic storey. Metal frame windows with glazing bars. Office entrance let back to the right approached via a small courtyard, two similar bays rising above the parapet level to form a tower, at the base of which is a doorway with an inscription over and panelled double doors; recessed in the comer a lead drainpipe with decorative brackets and hopper. Around the courtyard iron railings and Portland stone piers. INTERIOR: The entrance hall to the offices is lined in limestone [travertine] and onyx with clustered shafts to the pilasters and black bands; the onyx dado continues up the stairs and the ceiling is coffered. Banking hall has broad fluting to limestone window piers and fluting to the frieze of the coffered ceiling. 7-8 Waterloo Street - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-08-21 11:03:16 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| タグ | |
| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/58) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |