One Great George Street
| One Great George Street | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Monumental neo-classical design |
| Architectural style | Modern rendering of the late Renaissance |
| Address | One Great George Street |
| Town or city | London |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 51°30′57″N 0°7′6″W / 51.51583°N 0.11833°W |
| Construction started | 1910 |
| Completed | 1913 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | James Miller, RSA |
| Website | |
| http://www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com/ | |
One Great George Street (OGGS) is a four-domed grade II listed Edwardian building used as a conference and wedding venue just off Parliament Square in Westminster, London, England. The building is also the global headquarters of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE); it was originally a venue for ICE members to relax, meet and have conferences, and became available for public events in 1989. It is near the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and St James's Park.
From 1839 until 1913, ICE occupied numbers 24–26 Great George Street. In the mid-1880s the government proposed re-development of the area around Great George Street to provide more office space for government departments. This meant the demolition of ICE's first location and led ICE to move its headquarters across the road to numbers 1-7.
One Great George Street was built for the ICE between 1910 and 1913 and was the result of an architectural competition won by James Miller, RSA (1860–1947). His winning design was priced at £77,126, with the other architects involved in the design competition including Brigg, Wolstenholme & Thornely, John Belcher, William Emerson, Charles Edward Barry and Thomas Collcutt. The contractor who built the building was Mowlem.
One Great George Street is an early example of steel-frame technology in Britain, with the structural frame using approximately 1,227 tons of steel supplied by the Lanarkshire Steel Company. The assembly of the steel-frame was subcontracted to Dawnay Ltd. and was built using several Scotch derrick cranes.
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