Sujet

Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, Kensington, London, 22/11/1961. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, Kensington, London, 22/11/1961. Two men shaking hands at the Commonwealth Institute's topping out ceremony reception. Laing built the Commonwealth Institute between October 1960 and October 1962 to replace the former Imperial Institute that was to be demolished to make way for new facilities at Imperial College. The building consisted of a four-storey administrative block housing a library, restaurant, board room and conference hall and a separate two-storey b lock containing a cinema with an art gallery above, but the focus of the project was the exhibition hall with its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, the first of its kind constructed in Great Britain. The exhibition, designed by James Gardner, provided spaces where each of the Commonwealth nations could showcase their achievements and characteristics, primarily to school children as teaching aids to enliven history and geography lessons.

Date

1961

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A00_064

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

61,8Mo (3,4Mo) / 38,6cm x 40,1cm / 4560 x 4739 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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