Town Hall
Following a competition in 1911, Sir Edwin Cooper was commissioned to design the town hall. The building, in Marylebone Road was built 1914-20. The building is faced with Portland stone and is an example of Edwardian Graeco-Roman classicism, with a tower in the style of Christopher Wren and fluted columns. Cooper also designed the 1938-39 extension in a simpler style to house the public library. The building in now Westminster Council House.
Read more about this topic: Metropolitan Borough Of St Marylebone
Famous quotes containing the words town and/or hall:
“The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)