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Shell Mex House Coordinates: 51.50981°N 0.12133°W from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Try Beta Log in / create account article discussion edit this page history Shell Mex House Coordinates: 51.50981°N 0.12133°W From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shell Mex House is situated at number 80, Strand, London, UK. The current building was built in 1930-31 on the site of the Cecil Hotel and stands between the Adelphi and navigation the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by the architectural firm of Main page Messrs Joseph, with F. Milton Cashmore responsible for most of the work. Contents 2 Featured content Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 537,000 sq ft (49,900 m ) of floor space, Shell Mex Current events House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable Random article from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock tower positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners). The clock search is one of the biggest in London and was known for a time as "Big Benzene". In the words of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, the building "is thoroughly unsubtle, but Go Search succeeds in holding its own in London's river front." The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for interaction whom it was originally built. Shell-Mex and BP Ltd was a Joint Venture company created Shell Mex House About Wikipedia by Shell and British Petroleum in 1932 when they decided to merge their United Community portal [1] Recent changes Kingdom marketing operations . On the "Brand Separation" of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd in 1975, Shell Mex House became the head office of Shell Contact Wikipedia UK Ltd, which was Shell's "UK operating company". Changes in the way that Shell was run in the 1990s led to the disposal of the property by Donate to Wikipedia Shell and today most of its floors are occupied by companies belonging to Pearson PLC, including Mergermarket, Penguin Books and Dorling Help Kindersley. toolbox During the Second World War, the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed What links here forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. It was Related changes badly damaged by a bomb in 1940. The building reverted to Shell-Mex and BP Ltd on 1 July 1948 with a number of floors remaining occupied by Upload file the Ministry of Aviation (latterly the Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division) until the mid 1970s. Special pages On 17 May 2006 The Times reported[2] that the building was for sale and that the Indian-Kenyan Kandhari family were the front-runners in the Printable version battle to buy it from the present owners, Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz. It was said that they had offered £530 million for the building but were Permanent link Cite this page competing with other interested groups, including Menorah, the Israeli insurer, an Irish company, and several British companies. An offer believed to be £520 million ($1.02 billion) was made in December 2006 by Istithmar, the investment agency of the Dubai government, who withdrew their languages offer before completion. The property was subsequently sold in July 2007 to a fund managed by Westbrook Partners. Français See also [edit] Shell Centre References [edit] 1. ^ Reference and contact details: GB 1566 SMBP Title:Shell-Mex and BP Archive Dates of Creation: 1900-1975 Held at: BP Archive GB 1566 SMBP 2. ^ The Times, Business, 17 May 2006, p. 63 Categories: 1931 architecture | Buildings and structures in Westminster | Low and mid rise commercial buildings in London | Art Deco buildings in London This page was last modified on 20 February 2010 at 00:00. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Contact us Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers .
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