Faraday House 48 Old Gloucester Street
This carved, raised, building name shows one of the more playful approaches to our subject, some letters being reduced to abstraction making them legible as letters only when seen in the context of the rest. The letters are carved from the blocks making up the wall and until 1995 were self-coloured. Unpainted, they were emphatically part of the wall, a fact disguised by colour.
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The lettering was painted in 1995 destroying the sense that it is part of the building.
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The lettering photographed before painting in 1995. ’Ancient lights’ refers to a building’s right to light within planning law.
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An unexpected suprise: in front of the building, the initials FH are part of the railings and easy to miss.
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An unexpected suprise: in front of the building, the initials FH are part of the railings and easy to miss.