1923

Design for three tower-blocks (for flats),
 Scheme
for the Treatment of the Devonshire House site,
 Westminster, London.

 

 

According to Stuart Durant evidently influenced by North American skyscraper design, the blocks have a markedly medieval aspect.




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Tower Block
image published in Wendy Hitchmough, C F A VOYSEY, p.208







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Reference:

The Builder, CXXV, 1923, pp. 990-1.

 Wendy Hitchmough, CFA  VOYSEY, London 1995, p. 208.

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Woolworth Building in New York City, photo 1913
Copyright by The Pictorial News Co., N.Y. No. NN 98
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Houses of Parliament, on the right the Victoria Tower completed in 1860
Photo by Stephen Richards, geograph.org.uk
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