Albert Embankment (1)
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Albert Embankment (1)
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: Unknown
Running south from Lambeth Bridge (left of shot) towards Vauxhall Bridge. The yellow-brick building on the left is the International Maritime Organisation (1977-82, by Douglas Marriott, Worby and Robinson Image]). Its neighbour is the former Fire Brigade Headquarters, (1937, by E.P. Wheeler of the London County Council Image]) - big, brick and horizontal. After a couple of modern blocks are a run of post-war office blocks described by Pevsner as, "bland facades with no emphasis anywhere apart from a few attempts to liven the roof-lines with free-standing grids". See here for a closer view: Image] The Albert Embankment, built out by Joseph Bazalgette in 1866-69, was primarily an industrial area until the Second World War after which commerce moved in.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.49273
Longitude
-0.121468