Born in Woodford, Essex His chief work was the Royal Courts of Justice (1868-81) in the Strand.
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George Edmund Street
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George Edmund Street
Greater London Council George Edmund Street, 1824 - 1881, architect, lived h...
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Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, C.H., K.C.V.O., P.R.A., R.D.I.
Hugh Casson was an architect, notably for the 1951 Festival of Britain and the London Zoo Elephant House. President of the Royal Academy (PRA) from 1976 to 1984. He was also president of The Frie...
Chelsea Embankment
Designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Apart from providing a pleasant riverside walk, it was built with the dual purpose of providing a flood barrier and as a covering for the main low level sewer for...
Lewis Cubitt
Architect. Younger brother of Thomas. Designed King's Cross station, the Great Northern Hotel and the granary building just to the north in the King’s Cross railway lands, all now restored. The...
Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy
Crystal Palace
Originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was on the section south of Rotten Row and east of West Carriage Drive with the mid-point opposite Rutland Gate. The cast-...
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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventual...
Finchley Road
This highway was constructed in 1835 as an alternative by-pass route to the old road from London to the north, which took the gruelling haul up through the congested streets of Hampstead.
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