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Office Buildings

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

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

"A shop and offices", 1934-1935

 File
Identifier: PJM/UOL/A/4/2
Scope and Contents

Architectural drawings by Percy Johnson-Marshall, undertaken whilst a fourth year student at the Liverpool School of Architecture, for a project entitled "a shop and offices". There is one sheet of elevations, plans and sections and one sheet of axonometric drawings. The drawings are drawn in pencil with water-colour wash and ink highlights. There is also a sheet of research information and drawings on the subject of department stores.

Dates: 1934-1935

City of London: Tower of London Precinct, c1957-c1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.4
Scope and Contents

File of papers relating to London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 4: Tower of London Precinct. The file contains a planning brochure for the planned precinct, a layout plan by the Corporation of London City Planning Office overdrawn on an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale (possibly reduced in size), and some typescript notes concerning the area.

Dates: c1957-c1959

Comprehensive Development Areas: South Bank, 1949-c1960

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4
Scope and Contents Comprehensive development areas: South Bank consists of: planning correspondence and papers, (1954-1955) Festival of Britain 1951 competition - "Design a restaurant for the South Bank", (1949) drawings, (c1954) press clippings, (1953-1960) hotel site particulars, (1954) photographs, (1954-1961) South...
Dates: 1949-c1960

Elephant and Castle: drawings, 1955-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.2.5
Scope and Contents

5 copy perspective drawings (24cm x 37cm) of the proposed development at London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle. The drawings show the pedestrianised shopping areas and the multi-purpose office, shopping and entertainment development. The drawings are hand coloured. 2 are the same copy with differing hand colouring.

Dates: 1955-1956

Lewisham Clock Tower: papers, 7 September 1953

 Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/7.1
Scope and Contents

Typescript note concerning a change of use, from office buildings to residential, for buildings planned as part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 7: Lewisham Clock Tower.

Dates: 7 September 1953

London County Council: photographs, 1940s-1950s

 Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/G
Scope and Contents Photographs consists of: office blocks, 1950s Gipsy Road, Lambeth, 1940s housing development models and archways, 1950s the south prospect of London, 1666, 1950s architectural models, 1950s architectural models (2), 1958-1961 miscellaneous, 1950s County of London Plan, 1940s ...
Dates: 1940s-1950s

New Barbican: photographs, 1954

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.3
Scope and Contents Photographs relating to redevelopment of the Barbican area, as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The photographs consist of: 30 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 25cm) of the architectural models for the first scheme, and the extension to the first redevelopment scheme. This design was by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning...
Dates: 1954

Photographs: office blocks, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/G/1
Scope and Contents

6 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 25cm) showing office blocks. 3 show an office block at 20 Albert Embankment, London, under construction; 2 show different architectural models of office blocks; 1 shows some flatted housing. These were part of the London County Council Architect's Department Collection.

Dates: 1950s

Plans: Elephant and Castle site no 1, c1955

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.2.2
Scope and Contents

9 copy architectural plans (77cm x 128cm) by the Ardin & Brookes Partnership. These form a portfolio of plans for the construction of a development which combined shopping, offices, car parking and a cinema at Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle in London. The plans are comprise: a site plan at 44' to 1" scale; floor plans, elevations and sections at 16' to 1" scale and a perspective drawing. The portfolio originally had 11 sheets but sheets 2 and 7 are missing.

Dates: c1955

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