Brick Gallery

Sir John Laing Building JLP01_10_08850

Sir John Laing Building, Page Street, Mill Hill, Barnet, Greater London. The exterior of the front entrance to the Sir John Laing Building, Mill Hill, showing the octagonal glass Conference Centre to the left.
The Sir John Laing Building, named in honour of the company's president who died in January 1978 at the age of 98, was built between 1977 and 1980 having been planned since 1974. The building completed a phase of development at Laing's Mill Hill headquarters complex, an area that the firm had occupied since moving from Carlisle in 1922. By 1988 however a major restructuring of the company and meant a wholesale relocation out of the Mill Hill site with just the Sir John Laing Building remaining as Group HQ. It too was subsequently demolished and housing occupies the site. The use of brick in a sculptural way was a deliberate attempt by architect Graham Barsby to distance the design from the concrete rectilinear forms of the 1960s. The building won a Certificate of Merit in the Brick Development Association Architectural Awards in 1983

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Assembling a prefab P_H00043_005

Trowley Rise, Abbots Langley, Three Rivers, Hertfordshire. Workmen assembling a Swedish prefabricated house in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, with an individual consulting construction plans in the foreground.
It is difficult to determine where precisely these Swedish Houses were constructed. However, the first Swedish Houses in the UK were built in Abbots Langley

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Boat House, Madley, Staffordshire

Picturesque shot of the boat house and surrounding trees being reflected in the water. IoE 362660

© Clive Shenton Source: Images of England

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