Unilever House

Unilever House is a building constructed between 1930 and 1932 by J Lomax Simpson in collaboration with Burnet, Tait and Partners. It features a steel frame construction faced with Portland stone and is designed in a "stripped classical" style. The building has eight storeys, and its facade along Victoria Embankment follows the curve of the road. The rusticated ground floor of the main block projects forward but curves inward to a central arched entrance, which is flanked by two smaller square-headed doorways and decorative lamp standards. Free-standing unfluted Ionic columns extend through the fourth to sixth floors, and the windows are metal-framed. The seventh storey, which is visible from above, appears as a parapet now pierced by windows above a strongly-marked cornice. The entrances flanking the main block support sculptural groups created by Sir William Reid Dick.