| Architect |
CZWG |
| Date
Built |
1987 - 1990 |
| Location |
Queen
Elizabeth Street, SE1 |
| Description |
|
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This mixed
development in Bermonsey comprises 302
flats, twelve shops, a restaurant, eight
office suites and a swimming pool /
health club. The architect's
website explains that it, "...
comprises two mainly residential
buildings either side of Queen
Elizabeth Street. They follow the
back-of-pavement line except for a
huge intervention centrally on Queen
Elizabeth Street, where a
cylindrical space creates two
semicircular forecourts serving the
two apartment entrance halls and car
park entrances." The
concave facades skirting the forecourts
are clad in deep-blue glazed bricks.
   In the middle of Queen Elizabeth Street, within The Circle, is this statue of Jacob the shire horse.     "The street
elevations respond to their London
stock brick warehouse neighbours,
but here the metal windows are
finished in light gold, the parapets
undulate and balconies are bracketed
on pine logs."
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The
Circle, London
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