A ​Hotel, Club and Restaurants in the City of

1 1 4 - 5 22-23 Welcome to The Ned Soho House Ned’s Club & Sydell Group Fitness and social spaces for How The Ned was born working out and winding down A FEW YEARS AGO, if you’d told me we’d be opening a hotel and members’ club, complete with nine 6-7 24-25 restaurants, in the , I’d never have The Architect Beauty & believed you. Sir Edwin ‘Ned’ Lutyens, Grooming Coming from someone who has lived most of his life the Surrey-raised designer Manicures, blow-drys, of the building wet shaves and more in London, it probably sounds like a strange thing to say, but this jumble of ancient and modern buildings 8-9 2 6 - 2 7 just wasn’t on my radar. The Building A Roof with a View ​I immediately fell in love when I was first shown The story behind the Midland Get up close and personal Bank’s HQ, a vision in to City landmarks from Ned’s the old Midland Bank Building on Poultry and the Portland stone Club Upstairs moment I left I called Ron Burkle, my Chairman and investor. Ron came to view the building and straight 10-11 2 8 - 2 9 away we began to imagine how the project would The Design Saturday in The Ned brought to life, the City take form. Ron knew that to make the vision for from bespoke wallpaper and Think EC1 is Monday to The Ned a reality would require a collaboration of furniture to a rooftop terrace Friday only? A Barbican many skills. He suggested that we work on the project resident takes us on a tour 1 2 - 1 3 with Sydell Group, a hotel company based in New 3 0 - 3 1 York that he owns with founder, Andrew Zobler. Bedrooms A look at The Ned’s The Neighbourhood ​It was through this vision and partnership that 252 bedrooms Our sightseeing highlights, from we were able to make The Ned a reality. St Paul’s Cathedral to Tate 1 4 - 1 5 ​Since then, the two of us have really got to know our Modern – all just a stroll away Edwin Lutyens-designed building as well as the City, Eating & Drinking A walk through our 3 2 - 3 3 and we’ve both become big fans. The area is as busy restaurants and bars Architectural as Soho and much better looking; it’s the capital’s Wonders 16-21 engine room for commerce but also has more than its Wallpaper* editor-in-chief Tony fair share of culture for one square mile. And – like Floor by Floor Chambers introduces us to his What you’ll find where on favourite local buildings New York’s own financial district – it’s developing The Ned’s 13 storeys at a rapid pace. ​We’re proud to be part of that change and excited to be here. Consider this booklet your guide to The Ned and its neighbourhood. We look forward to seeing you there. EDITOR Kate Maxwell ILLUSTRATION Zoe More O'Ferrall ART DIRECTOR Ruth Costello WRITER Lucy Quick Nick Jones & Andrew Zobler DESIGNER Niklas Juli SUB-EDITOR Nazrene Hanif

2 3 Soho House & Sydell Group

London-based Soho House & Co and New York’s Sydell Group have joined forces to create The Ned. Here’s how they did it Clockwise from left: Babington House, Soho House Istanbul, The NoMad, The LINE LA, The LINE LA, The NoMad, Soho House New York, Soho House 76 Dean Street.

WHEN NICK JONES, THE FOUNDER of Soho House & iconic heritage buildings before, Jones and Zobler were The companies brought different skills to the table. challenges me on all my creative decisions – he’s Co, approached his major partner, Ron Burkle, with immediately inspired by Edwin Lutyens’s Poultry ‘I have a lot of respect for the design and style of Soho creative himself, very good on operations and brilliant an ambitious proposal to take over the City’s Midland masterpiece – all 29,450 sq m of it. ‘It was the most House,’ says Zobler. ‘The Ned’s Grand Banking Hall at development. We got on like a house on fire.’ There Bank building, Burkle introduced Jones to Andrew beautiful building I’d ever seen,’ says Jones. Zobler adds: is vast, and because the company operates different may well be more Neds ahead – the duo is now on the Zobler, the CEO of Sydell Group. ‘The Ned was a ‘The architecture is outstanding and so well preserved. types of restaurants and retail spaces – Cecconi’s, lookout for large buildings to develop in Los Angeles much bigger project than either of us had undertaken You can’t help but fall in love with it.’ Pizza East, Cowshed and so on – Nick and the team and New York. before,’ says Zobler, ‘so it made sense for us to partner Jones believes The Ned’s location – an evolving were great at working out what should go where.’ So what are Jones and Zobler most looking forward on it.’ business district with little in the way of hotels – bears As for Sydell’s role, Zobler says: ‘We’ve acted as to when The Ned opens its doors next spring? ‘I can’t Soho House & Co has built and run 17 members’ a resemblance to The NoMad’s in New York. an editor, challenging and consolidating Nick’s vision. wait to stay there and experience the different bed- clubs – most with bedrooms – and 37 restaurants ‘With The NoMad, Sydell took an area of Man- I kept reminding him that we were in the City of London rooms, from the small, budget ones to the grand around the world, while Sydell Group has seven hotels hattan that had been overlooked in terms of hospitality, – a lot of Soho House properties and clubs take their palatial rooms,’ says Jones. But for both, the clincher in North America – including The NoMad in Man- opened a hotel with a very clever New York-Parisian feel, cues from the English countryside, so I pushed him to is the roof. ‘Sitting by the pool on the rooftop of a hattan, and Freehand in Miami and The Line in and turned the neighbourhood into a destination. I hope make it more urbane and gentlemanly, to pick up on 100-year-old building, looking straight out at St Paul’s Los Angeles. While both companies have worked with we’ll achieve something similar with The Ned,’ he says. the building’s banking heritage.’ Jones agrees: ‘Zobler Cathedral – that’ll be amazing,’ says Zobler.

4 5 The Architect

We track the evolution of Sir Edwin ‘Ned’ Landseer Lutyens from country lad to great romantic architect – via bad puns and bedroom antics

IN THE 1920s, THE MIDLAND BANK – then one of morning, six pipes would be laid out in his study, to be the largest banks in the world – wanted a new London puffed on continuously while he worked. Lord Cough headquarters, something that would ooze confidence of Cough, he called himself. and financial security and cut a flourish amid the Lutyens liked a joke or two – don’t let those rather on dozens of country houses. Another advocate was even leather-bound books in the library, flushing loos straight-backed Victorian buildings of the City. strait-laced portraits fool you. He invented nicknames Edward Hudson, the editor of Country Life, one of and working lifts. It was in New Delhi, though, that his There was only one person to turn to: Sir Edwin and doodled Spike Milligan-esque cartoons (Gandhi the first lifestyle magazines, which was perused by vision reached epic proportions. Creating a new city Landseer Lutyens, whose close friends and family on a camel: ‘You should see Mysore’). His punning wealthy readers for inspiration. for India occupied 18 years of his life, a vast under- called him Ned. Designed in 1924, it was one of three was relentless. ‘Is Lady Ida down?’ he asked, while Lutyens was lucky to be working in those Edwardian taking that included the sandstone Viceroy’s House, banks the architect created for Midland, the others staying at the Sitwells. At the Owl Club in Cape Town, golden years before World War I, when there were which with 340 rooms was a little larger than Versailles. include one on , in what he began a speech with, ‘I wish enough self-made businessmen with the clout to bag It was the first building to entwine Western classicism he described as his ‘Wrennaissance’ I had t’wit t’woo you.’ A certain a trophy home and the servants to run it. Lutyens’s with Mogul and Hindu design. On his way out for the style, and one in Manchester, Lord Crawford remarked that skill, as he once said, was to ‘find out how much money last time, in 1931, Ned kissed its walls goodbye. which was as crisp and white as ‘To have to laugh at every remark they had to spend, and spend it for them.’ Not for them Lutyens died of cancer in 1944 and was buried in a pile of new five-pound notes. he makes… and to have to do a draughty old pile with suits of armour, but a country Westminster Abbey, but not before proposing plans By his fifties, Lutyens had incessantly, is the most fatiguing villa with a modern sensibility, grand yet cosy – one for a new and symmetrical London to rise after the already designed and reworked experience I know.’ that was well versed in ’s heritage but up to war. He left behind his own epitaph: ‘Architecture approximately 200 country houses. His wife, Emily, the daughter speed on the latest innovations. should begin where words leave off.’ He helped create one of the first of the first Viceroy of India, also Nikolaus Pevsner, the dauntless architectural by RICK JORDAN model communities, Hampstead found him rather tiring. According historian, rather sniffily described Lutyens as ‘without Garden Suburb, and put his name to Jane Ridley, Lutyens’s great- doubt the greatest folly builder England has ever seen.’ to two imposing national expressions: granddaughter, she knew ‘little of That seems unfair. Lutyens was one of England’s great the Cenotaph in London and the what to expect beyond the chilling romantic architects, reimagining Arts & Crafts and British Embassy in Washington advice of her mother never to refuse classical ideals, and in love with natural materials DC. He designed the original sets her husband and always keep a pot such as oak, slate, chalk and stone, which would for the play Peter Pan, and conjured of cold cream beside the bed.’ acquire a patina of age. These were locally sourced, up a sweeping imperial capital in New Delhi. Not bad Their honeymoon was so awful they never went on too, so that houses such as Munstead Wood in Surrey for a country lad from Surrey, who was never formally holiday again. In 1914, shortly after war was declared, and Marshcourt in Hampshire were true to their trained and who would wander the lanes sketching Emily announced her celibacy after being seduced surroundings. He was passionate about what lay timber-framed farms, churches and cottages on a pane by the Theosophists, a crackpot bunch of spiritualists behind the facades, also sketching roomfuls of witty, of glass using a sharpened piece of soap. who put their faith in an Indian-boy guru, Krishnamurti. imaginative designs for chairs, door fittings, clocks Lutyens’s father, who was known as an eccentric The pair would be estranged for many years, yet he and light shades. painter of horses, sired 14 children, ran out of money would write to her almost every day, and eventually Two of his most incredible achievements stand at and often made his family eat boiled cabbage served they were reunited. opposing ends of the scale. Now residing at Windsor on old newspaper instead of a tablecloth. Understand- Relationships with other women were more fruitful. Castle, his Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House took three years ably, Lutyens was determined to break free of his up- One of his first champions was the doyenne of the to make and involved 1,500 people – including the bringing. Throughout his career, his work ethic was mixed border, garden designer Gertrude Jekyll artist William Nicholson, who painted the mini murals, Left: Portrait of Edwin Lutyens. Top: Viceroy’s House in New Delhi, designed by breathtaking: barely a minute was wasted, with plans – an imposing figure whom he christened ‘Bumps’ Gertrude Jekyll, who designed the garden, and Stanley Edwin Lutyens. Image by Cyril A. Farey. sketched out in notepads during train journeys. Each (for reasons unknown) and would collaborate with Gibbons, who made a tiny stamp album. There are Above: Design for a Tuscan gate by Edwin Lutyens.

6 7 The Building

On a site that was once a Roman wharf, The Ned has a few stories. We delve into the history of this Grade I-listed building

BY THE TIME SIR EDWIN LUTYENS started where the upper bank management worked,’ says designing the building that is now The Ned, its Poultry Greco. ‘This meant our design team couldn’t move plot had hosted a Roman wharf, a 14th-century any walls, so the offices have been very carefully sheriff’s prison and a church. The latter, St Mildred’s, repurposed into bedrooms, with the adjoining was founded on the site in the 1100s and rebuilt several secretaries’ offices as bathrooms.’ times, most notably by St Paul’s Cathedral architect Also protected by the listing was the chairman’s Sir – whom Lutyens idolised – after private lift, accessible via a side door in the main it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. entrance’s vestibule, which spirited him to his office In 1919, the Midland Bank was one of the largest and up to what is now the sixth floor for board meetings in the world, with deposits of more than £335 million, and lunches in a private dining room. ‘We spent a lot and had outgrown its London branch on Threadneedle of time reinstating the lift because it’s such an iconic Street. Mere feet from the Bank of England, where part of the building,’ says Greco. ‘It will take guests the Queen’s gold was housed, and in the centre of the straight to the original chairman’s office and adjacent City’s banking community, the historic site was the rooms, and to the private hire rooms.’ perfect location for its new headquarters. ‘Lutyens was one of the UK’s most desirable architects at the time; he had just been knighted for his work on the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi,’ says ‘Hiring Lutyens would have been akin Soho House co-lead designer Adam Greco. ‘Hiring to enlisting a celebrity architect like him to design the new Midland Bank would have Rem Koolhaas or Norman Foster today’ been akin to enlisting a celebrity architect like Rem Koolhaas or Norman Foster today. His style blended classical and modern elements – it complemented existing buildings in the area but had more intricate Lutyens’s work on the Poultry building was the detailing on the interior and exterior.’ beginning of a long relationship with the Midland The Midland Bank Head Office asked Lutyens to Bank. Over the ensuing years, the architect designed design the front elevations of the building, the banking important new branches on Piccadilly and Leadenhall hall, stairways, boardroom and other principal Street in London and King Street in Manchester, as rooms, along with some furniture and fittings. Several well as reworking bank chairman Sir Edward Holden’s details used in the main banking hall and safe deposit homes in London’s Smith Square and Somerset. area – clocks, door handles, staircase handrails and The cost of the building and fees eventually original black-and-white patterned flooring, all of which amounted to a whopping £2.2 million – around £100 have been carefully restored – reappear throughout million in today’s money – and the bank was hailed Lutyens’s commissions during that period. Lutyens’s ‘most learned work’, with newspapers at the ‘The Grade I listing that protects both the in- time reporting it as ‘a head office in excelsis’. We hope terior and exterior of the building has been upheld he’d appreciate its metamorphosis from head office to throughout, including on the fourth and fifth floors, grand hotel.

8 9 The Design

How The Ned’s designers channelled the glamour of the building’s heyday and embraced its eccentric spaces

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THE FADED GLAMOUR of a 1930s transatlantic and are furnished with opulent pieces like a grand ocean liner was the starting point for the interior four-poster bed and rich fabrics.’ design of The Ned. ‘We trawled the bank’s archives The team spent months creating bespoke wall- to find out what the building looked like in its 1930s paper for the bedrooms. ‘Adam and I went to Anstey heyday,’ says designer Adam Greco. ‘We were in- Wallpaper Company in Loughborough to design three spired by the great ships of that era, including the separate schemes for the Small rooms,’ says Lund. Normandie, as well as by the Orient Express.’ ‘Over 100-years-old, it’s one of the few companies The building’s Grade I-listed status provided that engraves and prints wallpaper, and we studied challenges, explains Alice Lund, also a designer on swatches and colourways from the period.’ the project, particularly when it came to the ground floor. ‘When Lutyens designed the bank he installed

92 green verdite marble columns and hundreds ‘We were inspired by the great ships 4 5 6 of walnut panelled counters for the bank tellers,’ of that era, including the Normandie, Lund says. ‘The whole lot was protected by the list- as well as by the Orient Express’ ing, and we had to work out how to fit seven restaurants and bars into the space.’ The bustle of the old bank’s reception area has been preserved – now, more than The sixth floor, which houses the main function 850 people can eat on the ground floor. rooms, has changed least. ‘The Tapestry Room is The team created a wide range of furniture based cloaked in a huge tapestry, which was the largest in on designs from the period. ‘Many of the timber pieces, England when it was installed in 1932, and features including the desks and cabinets, were inspired by coats of arms from 120 UK cities and towns,’ says furniture from the original building,’ says Lund. Greco. ‘We also restored an enormous 18th-century These were finished with upholstery styles from the chandelier from Devonshire House on Piccadilly to late 1920s and early 1930s. light The Saloon.’ Categorised as Small, Medium, Large and Big, ‘My favourite space is the vault,’ says Lund. In the 252 bedrooms are designed to represent the the belly of the building, it is dominated by the bank’s hierarchy of a 1930s bank. ‘We designed three hotels original stainless steel safety deposit boxes and its in one,’ explains Greco. ‘A Small room reflects the sort two-metre-wide door remains a key feature. It 7 8 9 of place a mail clerk might live and has a cosy feel once stored gold bullion deposits of £335 million and floral wallpaper. The Medium rooms are flashier, – around £15 billion in today’s money. Lund adds: 1 American cut velvet, used as upholstery in The Penny restaurant. 6 Italian Ombra di Caravaggio stone, forms counter tops with matching art-deco furniture and pieces like ‘We balanced out the severe geometry by creating 2 Italian jacquard, used as drapery in Medium bedrooms. at the hair salon. a marble-topped table that we imagined might have a plush club space that will be used by members day 3 Italian veria marble, lines Ned's Club Relax's swimming pool. 7 Italian Portoro Pink stone, forms counter tops at 4 English embroidered jacquard, used on headboards in The Penny restaurant. been purchased with a junior banker’s first bonus. and night. The vault will now be a lounge bar serving Small bedrooms. 8 American jacquard, used as upholstery at Ned’s Club Upstairs. The Large rooms would be occupied by a director Negronis and Gimlets. 5 Italian embossed leather, clads the bar at Cecconi’s. 9 Belgian epingle-style tapestry, used as drapery in Small bedrooms.

10 11 Bedrooms

Brass and mahogany furniture, chandeliers and richly patterned furnishings decorate The Ned’s 252 bedrooms. Each channels 1920s and 1930s design, with vintage pieces, hand-knotted Afghan rugs and rain forest showers

Clockwise from left: Large bedroom, Medium bedroom, Small bedroom.

12 13 Eating THE PENNY & Drinking American cafe serving salads, burgers, hot sandwiches and apple pie

Seven restaurants in the former Grand Banking Hall serve food that spans the globe, from Britain to Northern Italy, North America to Japan MILLIE’S LOUNGE British and American classics, 24 hours a day ­– fish& chips, lobster macaroni and BBQ short ribs

Clockwise from top: Cafe Sou, The Grill Room, The Penny.

Traditional Parisian cafe specialising in crustacea, French classics and daily specials

A British hotel grill with trolleys and gueridon service

Handmade pasta, pizza, seafood and Northern Italian-inspired dishes

Japanese grill serving sashimi, tataki, ramen and robata dishes, with sake

New York-style Jewish deli with smoked fish, herring, Reubens and cheesecake, to eat in or take away

14 15 The Ned Exterior & Interior

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18 19 The Ned Floor by Floor

What happens where, from the rooftop to the basement

ROOFTOP GROUND FLOOR Ned’s Club Upstairs: swimming pool, Princes Street Dome Bar & Ter race, Grand Banking Hall: check-in and concierge desks; restaurants – The Penny, Poultry Dome Bar & Terrace, Canopy Bar & Restaurant Millie’s Lounge, Cafe Sou, The Grill Room, Cecconi’s, Pen Yen and Zobler’s

FLOOR 8 BASEMENT 1 Men’s and women’s changing rooms and showers Cowshed Spa, Cheeky, Neville, Hair Salon, The Powder Room, Ned’s Club Downstairs FLOORS 1-7 Small, Medium, Large and Big bedrooms, and four suites BASEMENT 2 FLOOR 6 Ned’s Club Relax, Cowshed Spa treatment rooms, swimming pool, hamam, sauna and steam room Private hire spaces: The Tapestry Room, The Saloon, The Drawing Room, The RWB Room, The Wren Room, The Rose Room and two terraces BASEMENT 3 Ned’s Club Active, state of the art gym and studios for boxing, yoga, Pilates and spinning

20 21 Ned’s Club

Staying at The Ned gives you temporary membership to Ned's Club, and use of the following fitness and social spaces

Left: Ned’s Club Active. Right: Ned’s Club Upstairs. NED’S CLUB UPSTAIRS & DOWNSTAIRS

Our rooftop for members, with a pool, Canopy Bar & Restaurant, plus Princes Street and Poultry Domes for eating and drinking. In the basement, our Vault Room lounge bar serves classic cocktails and food from Cecconi’s restaurant.

NED’S CLUB ACTIVE & RELAX

On the basement floors, Ned’s Club Active has cardio, strength and training equipment, a boxing gym, Pilates, yoga, spinning and workout studios. At Ned’s Club Relax there's a swimming pool, hamam, sauna and steam room, plus Cowshed Spa, with eight treatment rooms open to the public.

22 23 Beauty & Grooming

A range of men’s and women’s services: Neville for traditional men’s grooming, Cowshed for spa treatments, Cheeky for manicures and pedicures, The Powder Room for make-up by professional artists, and a hair salon with an expert team of colourists and stylists Clockwise from left: Hair Salon, Cheeky, The Powder Room.

24 25 A Roof With a View

Ned’s Club Upstairs is a great spot for a cocktail, where members can spy the Gherkin, the Shard and the Walkie Talkie

26 27 Saturday 1 2 in the City

Sophy Twohig, Barbican Estate dweller and partner at Hopkins Architects, takes us through a day in her neighbourhood

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THE CITY IS THE OLDEST PART of London – there’s and Richard Rogers’s new Lloyd’s bank, before history on every corner and I love the array of bars finishing at 20 Fenchurch Street, the Walkie-Talkie and restaurants. It’s also the only place in London where building. We’ll pause here for a pit stop in the Sky you feel a sense of calm and peace at the weekend. Garden, which spans three floors and has tropical As an architect, I appreciate the Brutalist exterior landscaped gardens and 360-degree views of the city. of the Barbican, where I’ve lived for three years, and 1:30 pm the clever interior design, which makes my one-bed In the summer, I’ll often have a picnic in Postman’s Park, duplex flat feel much bigger than it is. There’s a great a tiny, immaculately kept garden near the Museum of 4 5 sense of community here, and a group of us go out for London. It has plaques around the edge dating from dinner together once a month. the 1900s that commemorate brave souls. 8:30 am 5:00 pm I often start Saturdays with a visit to Fix Coffee, Later, I’ll head to Oriole underneath Smithfield Market a homely cafe with pastries and strong cappuccinos. for pre-dinner cocktails. It’s a wonderful speakeasy bar If I fancy a more substantial breakfast, I head to the with an art-deco interior and live music every night, new Modern Pantry on Finsbury Square, grab a seat from six-piece jazz bands to Trinidadian calypso. at the bar for eggs Benedict and admire the walnut 7:30 pm panelling and striking blue tiles. After a couple of French 75s, I’ll see what’s on at the 10:00 am Barbican Centre. The programming for theatre and After breakfast I might go to Whitecross Street for music is so varied: they really push the boundaries to a hair trim at Whites and a manicure at vintage Tiki make every show look different, and being able to pop beauty parlour, Hula Nails. It’s the most charming up to my flat in the interval is such a perk. street, with great independent shops and a food market. 10:00 pm 11:00 am After a performance, I head to St John for a late supper. Fix Coffee Hula Nails Oriole Whenever my sister visits from California we pound I go regularly because it’s a buzzy scene and always 161 Whitecross St, London EC1Y 8JL 203-205 Whitecross St, London EC1Y 8QP Smithfield Market, London EC1A 9LH the streets of the City on a mini walking tour I’ve packed with friends, colleagues, and clients – it’s Modern Pantry (2) Sky Garden (4) St John (3) devised – it takes in 1,000 years of history and British definitely the place to pick up an architect. I order 14 Finsbury Sq, London EC2A 1AH 20 Fenchurch St, London EC3M 8AF 26 St. John St, London EC1M 4AY architecture from every era. Our route winds past the the same thing every time: roast bone marrow and Whites (5) Sophy Twohig in Postman’s Park (1) Barbican Centre Bank of England, the Rothschild Bank, the Gherkin parsley salad – it’s the best thing on the menu. 113 Whitecross St, London EC1Y 8JD St Martin's Le Grand, London EC1A Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS

28 29 The Neighbourhood

The Ned’s central City location puts museums, markets and galleries a stroll from the front door

1 Guildhall Art Gallery Home to the City of London’s art collection, dating from 1670 | 3-min walk

2 Ornate Victorian food market now a thriving retail space | 5-min walk

3 St Paul’s Cathedral The Bishop of London’s Sir Christopher Wren-designed seat | 7-min walk

4 The Monument Commemorating the Great Fire of London with 360-degree views | 8-min walk

5 Museum of London A potted London history spanning the Roman Empire to present day | 12-min walk

6 Barbican Centre Europe’s largest performing arts centre for concerts, theatre and film | 13-min walk

7 A castle with a bloody past, now home to the Crown Jewels | 13-min walk

8 Borough Market London’s oldest indoor food market peddling the best of British produce | 14-min walk

9 Smithfield Market An 800-year-old wholesale meat and poultry market | 16-min walk

10 The Shard See London and environs from the UK’s tallest tower | 18-min walk

11 Old Spitalfields Market Shops, events and food, open seven days a week | 19-min walk

12 Tate Modern Seven storeys of international modern art | 19-min walk

13 Whitechapel Gallery Offbeat space showing work from modern and contemporary masters | 21-min walk

14 Shoreditch House A private members’ club with bedrooms in a former warehouse | 23-min walk

30 31 Architectural Wonders 4 5

Wallpaper* editor-in-chief and local resident Tony Chambers selects some favourite City edifices spanning five centuries

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1 2 5 The Walbrook Club, St Stephen Walbrook 3 6 Leadenhall Market by Rudolph Palumbo, 1952 by Sir Christopher Wren, 1679 by Sir Horace Jones, 1881 37A Walbrook, London 39 Walbrook, London Leadenhall Market, London EC4N 8BS EC4N 8BN EC3V 1LT

‘A neo-Queen Anne building, ‘This is one of 24 Christopher ‘One of the finest examples now a members’ club, this Wren churches still standing of the Victorians’ skill for contains a model of Mies in the City – a beautiful Henry combining functional van der Rohe’s ill-fated City Moore altar in white polished engineering and decorative development, which was struck stone was added when it was exuberance – an authentic down by Prince Charles.’ renovated in 1987.’ reflection of what was modern at the time.’

3 The Leadenhall Building 4 Barbican Centre 6 Holland House by Rogers Stirk Harbour + by Chamberlin, Powell by H. P. Berlage, 1916 Partners, 2014 and Bon, 1982 1-4 Bury St, London 122 Leadenhall St, London Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS EC3A 5AW EC3V 4QT ‘An extraordinary residential ‘Decorative in a modernist ‘Whatever you think of their development the like of way, this office building aesthetics, Richard Rogers’s which we’ll never see again. by Dutch architect buildings are a cut above Ambitious and adventurous, H. P. Berlage was one other modern architecture for with plenty of open space, of the first steel-framed quality – the “Cheesegrater” it smacks of the optimism constructions in Europe.’ is a great example.’ of its post-war era.’ Photography by TUN SHIN CHANG & ANTON RODRIGUEZ

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