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.
Facts
Building TypeOffice and retail building 1 LocationCity of London, England 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source No 1 Poultry (Wikipedia)
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Source No 1 Poultry (Wikipedia)
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1. No 1 Poultry (Wikipedia)
Lead paragraph
Office building in the City of London
Description section
occupies the apex where the eastern ends of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street meet at Mansion House Street.
History section, construction
Construction was completed in 1997.
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Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
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.
In Style: Postmodern Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Postmodern architecture in the United Kingdom
Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia lead
The tall but less towering design, in a postmodernist style with an outer shell of even bands of rose-pink and muted yellow stone, prevailed.
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