Sujet

Minories Car Park, 1 Shorter Street, City of London, 29/09/1969. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Minories Car Park, 1 Shorter Street, City of London, 29/09/1969. The entrance to the staircase of the City Engineer's Highways Depot, built as part of the contract for Minories Car Park. The building was connected to the basement of the car park. It housed workshops, a canteen and rest room, offices and a caretaker's flat. The surface treatment of the exterior walls is visible in this photograph. Hemlock boards were used on the shuttering to leave an impression of the timber in the concrete surfaces. The architect EG Chandler took inspiration from Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank for this surface treatment. The complicated shape of the building meant its construction was difficult. No two sections of shuttering were the same so they could not be reused for a different part of the building.

Date

1969

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A00_132

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

99,4Mo (4,6Mo) / 44,3cm x 56,2cm / 5235 x 6634 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building England architecture country British English location century city of london Britain car park B&W Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W depot 1960s 20th century TGN photograph brutalist Chandler EG Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Minories Car Park Edwin George Chandler Edwin George EG Chandler