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60 Queen Victoria Street
Foggo Associates | |
| location | London |
| function | office |
| contributed by | davidb |
This building sits immediately next door to Stirling's No. 1 Poultry. Internally, the building is a straight-forward office block, but it is the bronze façade that sets this building apart. The ground and first floors are set back, allowing pairs of regularly spaced, slender circular columns to follow the plot boundary. Crowning each of these columns is a series of bronze brackets, which, in turn, support an array of even finer columns running all the way up the façade. At roof level they support horizontal grilles, which act as sunshades to the set back upper floor windows. A series of bronze beams link the columns at each floor level. Behind these beams, the floor plates are concealed by chamfered bronze cladding panels, which link into prismatic, angled window bays behind each of the exterior columns. At the centre of each bay is an area of glazing shaded by a finely cast bronze filigree-like screen. The whole effect is reminiscent of Islamic mashrabia screens.
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