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Architecture, Designs and Plans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Exhibitions: exhibition poster and plan, c1951

 Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/5.2
Scope and Contents Poster (37cm x 44cm) advertising the exhibition, hosted by London County Council Architect's Department, "Planning and Building in NE London" to be held in County Hall, London from 9-23 October c1951. The poster is printed in blue and white with a map of a suburban street layout, at approximately 1:2500 scale, as a background image. Floor plan (50cm x 84cm) by Sir Robert Hogg Matthew, of an exhibition layout at 1/8" to 1' scale. This is probably a plan for "Planning and Building...
Dates: c1951

London County Council: Architect's Department, 1940s-1964

 Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D
Scope and Contents

London County Council: Architect's Department consists of:


  1. Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951, (1945-1958)
  2. planning manuals and methodologies, (1940s-1959)
  3. staffing issues, (1945-1959)
  4. general work, (1944-1964)
  5. exhibitions, (1951-1959)
  6. sociological reports, (1951-1957)
Dates: 1940s-1964

New Barbican: redevelopment plans, 1954-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.2
Scope and Contents 2 reports with accompanying photographs and plans concerning the redevelopment of the Barbican area, part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The first; New Barbican ( 29 September 1954) is by Kadleigh, Whitfield & Horsburgh, and was commissioned by the New Barbican Committee who presented it to London County Council. This outlines a comprehensive...
Dates: 1954-1958

New Barbican: reports and the public enquiry, 1953-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.1
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London. The file consists of a number of reports concerning the scheme by either London County Council's Architect's Department, the Corporation of London Improvements and Town Planning Committee or Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, the architects commissioned to create the scheme. There are also a number of proofs of evidence and related...
Dates: 1953-1959

Plans: Mixed Barbican Development Plans, 1955-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5c
Scope and Contents 4 copy plans relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican Comprehensive Development Area in London. "Barbican 27 storey building Moor Lane" (38cm x 51cm) - layout plan is at 44' to 1" scale, 1958 "Annex B" (55cm x 70cm) - a plan with a numbered index to sites and their areas according to the development plan at 88' to 1" scale, January 1956 "Barbican Area" (50cm x 76cm)...
Dates: 1955-1958

Plans: New Barbican accommodation schedule original proposals, c1955

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5b
Scope and Contents

3 copy plans (33cm x 40cm) probably by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's's Architect's Department showing a cross-section of the proposed Barbican development and the number of square feet of accommodation available at each section of each level. 2 of the plans are identical except for some hand written notes. the third differs slightly in the area calculations.

Dates: c1955

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: house plans and elevations, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6n
Scope and Contents

8 copy architectural plans (51cm x 55cm) for housing developments in Lansbury, London. This was the part of Lansbury Neighbourhood, (Neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar, which became the subject of the "Live Architecture Exhibition" at the Festival of Britain, 1951. The plans consist of miscellanous plans and elevations, at a variety of scales, for different house types designed by London County Council Architect's Division.

Dates: 1950s

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: Peking Close, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6j
Scope and Contents 5 copy architectural plans (52cm x 57cm) for a housing development at Peking Close off East India Dock Road, Lansbury, London. This was the part of Lansbury Neighbourhood, (neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar, which became the subject of the "Live Architecture Exhibition" at the Festival of Britain, 1951.The plans consist of miscellanous plans and elevations, at 2 different scales, by London County Council Architect's...
Dates: 1950s

Plans: Rennie memorial - proposed resiting of monument, 18 January 1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.17
Scope and Contents

Copy plan (68cm x 113cm) by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing the proposed resiting of the Memorial to John Rennie, the designer of Waterloo Bridge, London. The plan comprises; the existing elevation and section and proposed elevation and section, of the memorial, both at 1/8" to 1' scale, elevations and plans of Waterloo Bridge at 30" to 1' scale and a perspective drawing of the proposed new site on the bridge.

Dates: 18 January 1956

Plans: South Bank permanent development (3), c1953

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.6
Scope and Contents Set of 5 mixed manuscript and copy plans (39cm x 76cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The plans show the proposed permanent development for the South Bank in London, which includes the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall, a hotel, a science centre, an airport terminal and office buildings. The plans are at 1:2500 scale and are intended for reduction to half size for an article in the Journal of the Royal...
Dates: c1953