We came to Victoria Coach Station recently and decided this would be our final entry into Sandy's art deco contest!
This is the side exit....
And that's the main entrance to London Victoria Coach station, the largest coach station in London!
It's rather amazing isn't it?!
The architectural partnership Wallis, Gilbert and Partners were commissioned to build it, and was completed in 1932
English Heritage designated he building as Grade 2 listed in 2014 after the freehold owner wanted to redevelop the site and relocate the station operations! Luckily that didn't happen!
On these windows, you can see a triangular motif on the divides.....
....which is repeated on the windows further down.
There's also a blue plaque on the building...
The architects office were based here until 1946!
Wallis, Gilbert and Partners also designed multiple other Art Deco buildings including multiple buildings on the Great West Road in Brentford Middlesex and also the Abbey Road Studios .... i've head of that before....!
That's an absolute classic! Did you know... there are a tonne of Wallis (and whomever the rest of them were) buildings in Brentford... the Golden Mile? Along Great West Road??
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