The whole building was never fully finished due lack of funds. The very top of the Tower was a aircraft observation post during the war years, and some say it would have been Hitler’s headquarters if the Germans had won WW2. George Orwell ‘s novel 1984 published (1949) was based on this building as it was the Ministry of Information during WW2. Nice looking Art Deco building being built 1932-1937. Only upstairs in rooms once occupied by the likes of John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey have the original features been retained plus some period paintings by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. This is all in direct contest to the olssst part of the building with ground floor rooms concealing their original stuccoed ceilings with ghastly low level plastic. But it’s the interlocking pyramids in the corridors with their brightly painted walls and a window to the outside resembling a lens aperture which impress and startle the most. The ultra modern is a media centre designed especially for cinematic studies in a state of the art cinema with the comfiest seats imaginable (unless you arrive late in which case it’s the hard-backed naughty side seat for you) which are also lower than usual to avoid being disturbed by the arrival of anyone in the row in front).
I attended a tour for Heritage Open Days which embraced the ultra-modern and the not terribly well preserved Georgian.
Some of the big names include Mandela, HG Wells and John Maynard Keynes.īirkbeck College which specialises in evening education for the maturer students has occupied 39-47 Gordon Square as its School of Arts. Books that are otherwise unopened in these times had it not for showcases like this. As with previous exhibitions, you’re here to see books. Imagine what it’s like to have coloured geometric shapes that are too surreal for anyone to decipher. All shown on a map that turns out to be excessively simplified. So “Writing for peace” goes to one corner, “Writing in protest” for another etc. They’ve finally decided to divide the area into sections.
Take the lift or stairs to the fourth floor for the library. Walk to its very end to head to the reception through a glass door. Keep walking to the next corner, then turn left and walk past Wiener Holocaust Library. Exit the station and turn left into the Square. So expect to come once on a hot summer day and the other - this. Senate House’s exhibitions change twice a year.
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