UK - London - Worldwide Photowalk 2025 - No1 Poultry_flipped mono_DSC1062
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No.1 Poultry in the City of London is another building I'd never managed to get any good shots of before. B&W isn't an obvious choice given the primary colours but I thought this moody monochrome treatment brought out the texture of the concrete nicely. I've given this a slightly surreal edge by 'flipping' one half of the image to give perfect symmetry....
The Scott Kelby Worldwide London Photowalk was organised by Steve Gosling and was titled 'Hidden London' and although I know London well there were a couple of new bits I saw.
For those that enjoy a photowalk, the next London Flickr Group Photowalk is planned for Saturday 18th October, more details here for anyone interested in coming along : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...
Click here for more shots of London architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157635041185106
From Wikipedia, "No 1 Poultry is a building in the City of London, allocated to office and commercial use. It occupies the apex where the eastern ends of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street meet at Mansion House Street, the western approach to Bank junction.
The design, by James Stirling, was constructed after the architect's death. It replaced the Mappin & Webb building, a neogothic, conical-turreted, grade II listed retail building, owned by developer Rudolph Palumbo and subsequently by his son, developer Peter Palumbo. Another option was a modernist minor skyscraper designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the manner of the Seagram Building in New York City – but dropped having failed in an influential architectural and planning show-down in the 1970s. The tall but less towering design, in a postmodernist style with an outer shell of even bands of rose-pink and muted yellow stone, prevailed. The point of the apex, as before, has a clock face but higher, as above a large pointed apex set of 30 window panes.
In 2016, the landowner proposed exterior alteration. Building users, experts and neighbours persuaded the experts at the designated UK body to protect and recognise the building and did so in the notable grade II* listed building category, making it, within England, the youngest at the time."
© D.Godliman
UK - London - Worldwide Photowalk 2025 - No1 Poultry_flipped mono_DSC1062
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
No.1 Poultry in the City of London is another building I'd never managed to get any good shots of before. B&W isn't an obvious choice given the primary colours but I thought this moody monochrome treatment brought out the texture of the concrete nicely. I've given this a slightly surreal edge by 'flipping' one half of the image to give perfect symmetry....
The Scott Kelby Worldwide London Photowalk was organised by Steve Gosling and was titled 'Hidden London' and although I know London well there were a couple of new bits I saw.
For those that enjoy a photowalk, the next London Flickr Group Photowalk is planned for Saturday 18th October, more details here for anyone interested in coming along : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...
Click here for more shots of London architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157635041185106
From Wikipedia, "No 1 Poultry is a building in the City of London, allocated to office and commercial use. It occupies the apex where the eastern ends of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street meet at Mansion House Street, the western approach to Bank junction.
The design, by James Stirling, was constructed after the architect's death. It replaced the Mappin & Webb building, a neogothic, conical-turreted, grade II listed retail building, owned by developer Rudolph Palumbo and subsequently by his son, developer Peter Palumbo. Another option was a modernist minor skyscraper designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the manner of the Seagram Building in New York City – but dropped having failed in an influential architectural and planning show-down in the 1970s. The tall but less towering design, in a postmodernist style with an outer shell of even bands of rose-pink and muted yellow stone, prevailed. The point of the apex, as before, has a clock face but higher, as above a large pointed apex set of 30 window panes.
In 2016, the landowner proposed exterior alteration. Building users, experts and neighbours persuaded the experts at the designated UK body to protect and recognise the building and did so in the notable grade II* listed building category, making it, within England, the youngest at the time."
© D.Godliman