File:Piccadilly Circus, London - The Sting - Regent Street - Christmas lights - Arthur Christmas (6438585523) (2).jpg
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At Piccadilly Circus in London. Night shots of buildings and the fountain. Building behind is The Sting. Regent Street is down here. Christmas lights advertising Arthur Christmas. Grade II listed building. TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET, W1 70/86 ; 71/2 (West side) 30.5.72 Nos. 49 to 63 odd. The Quadrant (including Nos. 9 to 18 consec. Piccadilly) G.V. II Quadrant of offices and shops and stores. Part of the south western half of Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Quadrant, designed from c.1910 taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly Hotel (Piccadilly q.v.) as key and scale and completed 1920-23. Stone-faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and mezzanine, 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has bold pulvinated rustication to its articulated piers, ashlar upper floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice, continuous range of dormers in roof which has bronze ridge cresting; prominent banded and corniced stone stacks. The penetration of Air Street is marked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open giant 3 storey Doric columned loggia over, a la Somerset House. The Quadrant composition is terminated by slightly advanced pavilions with concave pyramidal cupola roofs. The eastern end of the Quadrant includes the former Swan and Edgar's store (Nos. 9 to 18 Piccadilly) in which Blomfield develops the pavilion design towards Piccadilly Circus with 3 bays and a 9 bay return to Piccadilly. To the Circus, a pulvinated and channelled podium with an arcade embracing ground floor and mezzanine, above which are 3 storeys read as 1 ½ with tall, through storey, segment headed and hooded windows, ashlar faced with giant rusticated pilaster strips. Rich modillion cornice and attic storey with swags and festoons; close set dormers. The first return bay to Piccadilly is similarly treated. Beyond, the 8 bay composition differs in the treatment of podium and attic; the end bays are slightly advanced as pavilions with elevations similar to those facing the Circus and the Quadrant terminal pavilions, crowned with the same concave cupola roofs. |
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Piccadilly Circus, London - The Sting - Regent Street - Christmas lights - Arthur Christmas
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| Author | Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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