Another Adventure

Sandy Bear's Art Deco contest entry

 

This is the Ibex House building at the Minories in London (That's "Min - as in Minnie - Ories" and NOT "Mine - ories") and it's not far from the Tower of London.

It's a Grade 2 listed Art Deco building, with eleven storeys, designed by Fuller, Hall and Foulsham in the Streamline Moderne style with bands of faience cladding and black framed windows.

Building started in 1935 and completed in 1937 - receiving the Grade 2 listing in 1982

The building occupies about 0.75 acres with an elongated H footprint

Most of the building  rises to 7 or 8 storeys high with the top floors stepped back.....

....plus a ground floor, lower ground and basement level.

The centre of the façade above the main west entrance is emphasised with a vertical black faience strip with glazing, running from the first to the top floor, with similar vertical black faience strips above entrances in the sides of the east and west blocks

The building houses 191,144 sq ft f commercial and office space, occupied by a variety of businesses

Until recently, most of the lower ground floor and basement was occupied by a Virgin Active Health club.

There's a pub/bar called the Peacock on the ground floor (street level) 

With the entrance on the corner of the Minories main road

On the other ground floor corner, an Italian restaurant is currently being developed (as of October 2025)

The building was restored (including the replacement of all the faience) by the architects Rolfe Judd in 1994 and sold in 2019 for around GB£121 million!!!