4245 x 2819 px | 35,9 x 23,9 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
10 mai 2011
Lieu:
Fleet Exchange building, Farringdon Street, London EC1, England, UK, Europe
Informations supplémentaires:
The photograph shows one of the murals that Dorothy Annan was commissioned to create for the front of the BT Fleet Exchange building in Farringdon Street, London in 1963. There are nine murals in total, all of which reflect the period's concern with modernism and 'the white-heat of modern technology'. The Fleet Building was designed and built by the Ministry of Works in 1959-60 as a typical concrete slab-block of the time; it has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'a credit to the ministry'. The first International Subscriber Dialling (ISD) call was made from the building in 1963 by the Lord Mayor of London calling the French Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, in Paris. Today the building is empty, boarded up and awaiting redevelopment or demolition - it is owned by Goldman Sachs. Following campaigning by the Twentieth Century Society, the murals have been granted Grade II listed status and it is expected that they will eventually be relocated.
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