The Modernist Battleship Building in Paddington London. Built as a railway maintenance depot. Now home to Virgin media amongst others.
It was built as a British Rail Maintenance Depot in 1969 and known as Canal House. A history of the building compiled by one of its present occupants (BDSP Partnership) says that, "Commissioned by British Rail it was something of a minor sensation at the time of its completion and widely touted as the first London building to come to terms with the symbolisation of a modern transport building, set as it is in the crutch of a minor motorway and the main railway station system going into Paddington Station. The administration block towered above the roadway, small in area but immensley powerful in profile."
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Location: Battleship Building, 179 Harrow Road, Paddington, London
Photo credit: © Colin Walton / Alamy / Afripics
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