Sujet
Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, Kensington, London, 03/09/1962. Creator: John Laing plc.
Légende
'Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, Kensington, London, 03/09/1962. A group of MPs from Sierra Leone visiting the Commonwealth Institute during the final stages of its construction. 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
1962
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Notre référence
HRM22A18_048
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
61,7Mo (3,2Mo) / 39,3cm x 39,3cm / 4646 x 4642 (300dpi)