benedictolooneyarchitects

A Peckham-based architecture studio creating new build & conservation projects across South London - with an inordinate interest in historic architecture!

[benedictolooneyarchitects @BOLarchitect]

@ianvisits Thanks for posting these fascinating pictures, Ian.
We are working on the restoration of Richmond Station, which shares some of the fabulous interior detailing seen at Wimbledon.
Next time you are at Richmond, note the newly cleaned stone facade!
- Benny

[benedictolooneyarchitects @BOLarchitect]

@SwkHeritage A really fine building.
There were two fine RACS buildings in Peckham, 176-8 Rye Lane, now mutilated, the bigger department store at the south end of Rye Lane, demolished a decade ago.
The conservation battle continues!

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@GeraintFranklin So fine.
Shades of Lou Khan

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@RogerBowdler Such a fine ensemble. Much admired by me during my years at Grimshaws when we restored the three spans and the Lawn Area at Paddington in 1999.
The thick knitted scarf on the soldier almost hints at a belt of machine gun bullets. String stuff.

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Jim Wheble of BBC London visited our project at Peckham Rye Station last week and made this little film which aired yesterday.

https://t.co/HYnXZteLzG

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We are trying to bring some west end glamour to Rye Lane by illuminating the wonderfully restored front elevation of Peckham Rye Station. A picture I took last week! https://t.co/5oXoEfPPnc

[ianVisits @ianvisits]

Peckham Rye station restoration topped out with golden finials

➡️ https://t.co/nXrJyhMWFA

A couple of weeks ago, the front of Peckham Rye station was uncovered for the first time in over a year, as a major restoration of the Victorian station nears its completion.

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@QuintinLake McFarlanes’s Saracen Ironworks, was in Possil Park, Glasgow. We believe the Charles Henry Driver-designed ironwork at Peckham
Rye Station was cast there too!
Perhaps the greatest iron foundry in Britain,

[benedictolooneyarchitects @BOLarchitect]

@TheCourtauld Manet is the best.
Thanks for posting this picture

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@ejngee Thomas Brock & Aston Webb’s Victoria Memorial is one of the finest architectural settings in the Capital
We love Beaux Arts London. Public spirited, educational, beautiful.
The New Sculpture movement really delivers. Sweet Baroque Revival is what’s needed in these difficult times

[benedictolooneyarchitects @BOLarchitect]

@ollywainwright What a missed opportunity. The City deserves so much better.
Tragic.

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@StevenMRobb Coade Stone? Then it’s from SOUTH LONDON!

[Southwark News @Southwark_News]

Hidden gems of #Peckham Rye Station restoration revealed in our sneak video preview - including an abandoned billiard room and a secret staircase

@BOLarchitect @RailwayHeritage @networkrail @thepeckhamsoc @PeckhamVision @PeckhamHeritage @lb_southwark

https://t.co/8ne6m0hJVY

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@Southwark_News @PeckhamVision @ACAPeckham @thepeckhamsoc Great work Nancy. I’ve learned so much from your research into the Victorian architects, Jarvis and son !

[benedictolooneyarchitects @BOLarchitect]

@alisonmkrae That’s an incredible photo Alison. Is the view looking south?
What is the chimney and ‘works’ in the background?
A church on the far left?
Thanks for sharing.
b

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London Bridge’s Victorian-era winery Findlater’s Corner featured on tv programme ‘The Architecture The Railways Built’ https://t.co/ohTue2cVu4

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@FlipLondonTours On the subject of ABC tea rooms, check the ‘Dairy Express’ tea room mosaic we recently found at Findlater’s Corner, London Bridge.
Love a cup of tea and a sandwich!

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@ianvisits The Lynx helicopter suspended in the atrium is a wonderfully designed thing. How did the get it in the front door?

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@networkrail @MrTimDunn @YesterdayTweets Bravo! The New Street signal box was designed by the uber-cool post war modernist architects Bricknell & Hamilton who also designed for BR the ‘battleship’ The Paddington Station maintenance depot.

https://t.co/2SuI8xZyId

Inspired patronage from British Rail!

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@Mikeashworth12 @C20Society @CoopHeritage I found this bronze Co-op relic at Symonds Salvage Yard in Bethersden, Kent last Thursday. Needs a location too!