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Cardinal Place is a retail and office development in London, near Victoria Station and opposite Westminster Cathedral. The site consists of three buildings covering over a million square feet on Victoria Street next door to Portland House , and was designed by EPR Architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine .
The architects were Howard, Fairbairn & Partners, and the development took place from 1959 to 1963. [1] Pevsner notes that the architectural form of Portland House was influenced by the Pirelli Tower (1955–58) in Milan by architect Gio Ponti. [1] The development was known as Stag Place. [1] Today the site is Cardinal Place.
EPR Architects is a London-based architectural practice first established in late 1945 by Cecil Elsom CBE (17 January 1912 - 3 April 2006) before becoming Elsom, Pack and Roberts in 1947, under the names of its founders, Cecil Elsom, William Pack and Alan Roberts. [1]
Jenifer Emery became chairwoman of the company in the 1980s. In 2005, together with her son Alistair Emery, she acquired the company from Claridge's and has since relocated the business to Cardinal Place in Victoria. Edward Goodyear has enjoyed patronage from Queen Victoria.
Thomas Wolsey was born in about 1473, the son of Robert Wolsey of Ipswich and his wife, Joan Daundy. [3] Widespread traditions identify his father as a butcher; his modest origin became a topic of criticism later, when he amassed wealth and power that critics thought more befitting a member of the high nobility.
The Church of St. Andrew is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 20 Cardinal Hayes Place, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1842. The present building was erected in 1939 through a joint effort involving Maginnis & Walsh and Robert J. Reiley in the Georgian Revival architectural ...
A cardinal (Latin: Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis; lit. ' cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ') is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. They are titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, thereby serving as the primary advisors to the Bishop of Rome (the Pope).
Cardinal Place: 2005: Joy Gerrard — Panels set in pavement — Nine discs of varying sizes set in the pavement of the Cardinal Place development at various points in a pedestrian's route; they are inlaid with smaller coloured discs. [25] LP4: Cardinal Place