1934 – Manchester Central Library
The design was the result of a competition held in 1927 for a new library and town hall extension.
The design was the result of a competition held in 1927 for a new library and town hall extension.
Constructed to contain both offices and ventilator equipment for the Queensway Tunnel. The tunnel entrances,
Architect’s sketch proposal for ventilation station on Mersey tunnel. Grade II Listed building.
One of six such installations serving the Queensway Mersey Tunnel, the Woodside Ventilation Station stands 150 foot tall.
Sir Owen Williams impressive 1939 glass building on Great Ancoats Street in the Northern Quarter was a copy of its sister building on Fleet Street,
Lutyens’ unrealised vision for a re-arranged Liverpool centred around his uncompleted cathedral. The cathedral would have been a massive classical/Byzantine structure in brick and granite that would have become the second-largest church in the world.
Headquarters building for English Electric Company, on the site of the grandiose Gaiety Theatre which closed just prior to the Second World War.
The London church and mission was first established in 1882, when the Finnish port chaplain who had been sent to Hull in 1880 was relocated south because of the level of work demanded in London.
The distinctive blue Pilkington Head Office, a Grade II listed building constructed in 1959-63 designed by Maxwell Fry and his wife Jane Drew.
In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then emerging at the other end of Hope Street.