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Known as Space House when it was built, One Kemble Street was completed in 1966. It lies adjacent to Kingsway in Holborn, London.
Its architectural language, with a highly articulated facade created with geometric precast concrete sections which are structural and help support the building, is shared with a somewhat more famous nearby Seifert project, Centre Point, which was completed the following year.
It is thought that both buildings were actually designed by one of Seifert's senior partners, George Marsh.
One thing that attracts me to many of Seifert's (or perhaps rather Marsh's) buildings is the playfulness with which he treats the major structural elements. The tops of piers and columns bisect or dissolve into a number of crystalline facets. It's an approach to tectonic expression which is often missing in many more recent buildings.
Photographically, I find they often lend themselves well to a black and white treatment which emphasises the more abstract, geometric nature of the building.
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
Its architectural language, with a highly articulated facade created with geometric precast concrete sections which are structural and help support the building, is shared with a somewhat more famous nearby Seifert project, Centre Point, which was completed the following year.
It is thought that both buildings were actually designed by one of Seifert's senior partners, George Marsh.
One thing that attracts me to many of Seifert's (or perhaps rather Marsh's) buildings is the playfulness with which he treats the major structural elements. The tops of piers and columns bisect or dissolve into a number of crystalline facets. It's an approach to tectonic expression which is often missing in many more recent buildings.
Photographically, I find they often lend themselves well to a black and white treatment which emphasises the more abstract, geometric nature of the building.
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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One Kemble Street by cybertect, on Flickr
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