University of London
London
Greater London, England
Lutyens’s unbuilt sketch design for the University of London’s Senate House envisaged a Keppel Place front with “steps of honour” rising to a central portico flanked by twin towers, a scheme later superseded when Charles Holden’s very different design was adopted in 1932.
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Description
Sketch elevation for the principal approach facing Keppel Place, with steps of honour leading to portico and twin towers. The architect of Senate House was eventually Charles Holden, whose scheme was settled upon in 1932. (Amery et al, 1981, Cat no.477)
Bibliography
Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.,