The Quadrant

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET, W1 70/119 (West side) 30.5.72 Nos. 83 to 89 (odd), 89A and 91 to 113 (odd) The Quadrant G.V. II Quadrant of offices and shops. Part of the south western half of Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Quadrant, designed c.1910 taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the Quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly Hotel (Piccadilly q.v.) as key and seale, completed 1920-23. Stone faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and mezzanine, 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has boldly pulvinated rustication to its articulating piers, ashlar upper floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice, continuous range of dormers in roof which has bronze ridge cresting; prominent banded and corniced chimney stone stacks. The penetration of Swallow Street is masked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open, giant, 3 storey Doric columned loggia over, a la Somerset House. The Quadrant composition is terminated by a slightly advanced pavilion with concave pyramidal cupola roof, balancing similar features to eastern end, viz Nos. 49 to 63 odd, qv.

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