Monday 8 June 2020

The Laboratory Building

[from the archives of 2011]
Architects: Stanley Hall and Easton & Robertson (John Easton designed), 1936-38. Steel frame with red-brown brick facing and Portland stone dressings. Designed in the Modern Movement style with an eye-catching semicircular glazed staircase-well projecting. Originally used as laboratories for the Water Examination Dept. of the Metropolitan Water Board. Converted in 1997 to 35 flats. Grade II listed for a "simple but powerful design in the modern spirit". 177 Rosebery Avenue, London Borough of Islington. 
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