Michael Faraday Memorial

The Michael Faraday Memorial is a transformer station for London Transport and a tribute to the physicist and chemist Michael Faraday. It was designed by Rodney Gordon while he worked for the London County Council, with the design completed in 1959 and construction taking place from 1960 to 1961. The building features black-painted steel structural supports and is clad in square stainless steel dished panels. It has a flat roof and a rectangular plan supported by four prominent structural supports, one on each side, which extend beyond the cladding and roof, creating a suspended enclosure. The building rests on a recessed black-painted plinth. It is noted for its architectural quality and style, representing an early British use of stainless steel for cladding and anticipating the "high tech" architectural movement of the 1970s and 1980s.