Boots head office (the D90 West building), Beeston, Nottinghamshire
| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA3828 |
| Architect/Designer | Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Yorke Rosenberg & Mardall
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| Artist/Photographer | Donat, John (1933-2004)
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| Country | UK: England |
| City | Beeston |
| Subject Date | 1968 |
| Image Date | 1968 |
| View | Exterior |
| Style | Modern Movement |
| Medium | Negative |
| Library Reference | 25 06 68 5/3 [or Miscellaneous slides re architectural photography (print in Building with Light box)] |
| Orientation | Landscape |
| Colour / B&W |
Black and white |
| Credit |
John Donat / RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
This steel-framed building was designed on two floors around a central courtyard according to American out-of-town planning principles by the Chicago firm of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) in association with the London firm of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall. This extremely influential building with its use of high-class welded steel and the open-plan design led the way for the subsequent development of 'high-tech' steel office buildings for which Britain became internationally renowned. It was Grade II listed in 1996.
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Subject tags
modernism less is more, office buildings, reflections, glass, steel