Swiss Cottage Library, Avenue Road
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Swiss Cottage Library, Avenue Road
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 9 Jul 2011
An eyecatcher by the esteemed Basil Spence, Bonnington & Collins, 1963-64. Built with the adjoining swimming baths, both of which "delight in their use of concrete, and are distinguished externally by powerful geometric contrasts" (Pevsner). The library is a very long rectangle with semi-circular ends, the facade broken up Portland stone fins. Grade II listed. It was conceived as a larger civic complex, the rest of which was aborted as the borough of Hampstead was abolished in 1965.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.542381
Longitude
-0.173504