No. 1 Poultry

No. 1 Poultry stands at a prominent triangular junction in the City of London, completed in 1997 to a design by the architect James Stirling, one of his final works, finished after his death by his partner Michael Wilford. Its wedge-shaped plan follows the site's triangular boundaries exactly, and its facade of alternating bands of pink and buff colored stone, punctuated by a distinctive circular drum feature at the building's prow, made it one of the most prominent Postmodern commercial buildings in central London. The site had been the subject of a long preservation battle in the 1980s, when a proposal by Mies van der Rohe to demolish a Victorian bank building there and replace it with a glass tower was fought and eventually blocked by conservationists including the Prince of Wales, clearing the way for Stirling's design instead. The building was granted Grade II* listed status in 2016, an unusually rapid listing for a structure less than twenty years old.