The Quadrant

TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl 70/91 ; 71/4 (East side) 30-5-72 Nos 52 to 100 (even) and 74A THE QUADRANT (inclu- ding Nos 9, 19, 27 and 29 Glasshouse Street and Nos 5 to 17 (odd) and 14 to 18 (even) Quadrant Arcade and No 15A Air St GV II Quadrant of offices, shops and arcade. The north eastern half of Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Regent Street Quadrant. Designed from c. 1911, taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the Quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly Hotel as key and scale and completed 1920-23. Stone faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and mezzanine. 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has bold pulvinated rustication to its articulating piers, ashlar upper floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice; continuous range of dormers and bronze cresting to ridge; prominent banded and corniced stone stacks. The penetration of Air Street is marked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open giant 3 storey Doric columned loggia above, a la Somerset House. The composition is terminated by slightly advanced pavilions with concave, pyramidal cupola-roofs. The Quadrant Arcade has 2 storey glass fronted shops divided by coupled pilasters, Ionic to ground floor and of Tower of Winds derivation to 1st floor. No 68, The café Royal, was rebuilt behind Blomfield's facade by Sir Henry Tanner, 1923-28, retaining elements of the original decoration of the 1865-72 cafe Royal by Archer and Green, in particular the sumptuous gilt caryatids and mirrors in the Grill Room.

Listing NGR: TQ2941580666