Water Feature Gallery

Fountain JLP01_09_811054

Sir John Laing Building, Page Street, Mill Hill, Barnet, Greater London. A fountain outside the front entrance of the Sir John Laing Building, Mill Hill.
The Sir John Laing Building, named in honour of the company's president who died in January 1978 at the age of 98, was built between 1977 and 1980 having been planned since 1974. The building completed a phase of development at Laing's Mill Hill headquarters complex, an area that the firm had occupied since moving from Carlisle in 1922. By 1988 however a major restructuring of the company and meant a wholesale relocation out of the Mill Hill site with just the Sir John Laing Building remaining as Group HQ. It too was subsequently demolished and housing occupies the site. The use of brick in a sculptural way was a deliberate attempt by architect Graham Barsby to distance the design from the concrete rectilinear forms of the 1960s. The building won a Certificate of Merit in the Brick Development Association Architectural Awards in 1983

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The Chinese House, the Rotunda and the Company in Masquerade in Ranelagh Gardens

STC181193 The Chinese House, the Rotunda and the Company in Masquerade in Ranelagh Gardens (coloured aquatint) by Bowles, John (1701-79); Private Collection; (add.info.: next to the Royal Hospital; From its opening, the Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens was an important venue for musical concerts. In 1765, the nine-year-old Mozart performed in this showpiece); The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

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Fountain at the large pond in the gardens of Paleis Het Loo, 1695-1705 (engraving)

5890555 Fountain at the large pond in the gardens of Paleis Het Loo, 1695-1705 (engraving) by Call, Jan I van (c.1656-c.1706); 13.2x16.4 cm; Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands; (add.info.: Fontein bij de grote vijver in de tuinen van Paleis Het Loo
Uitgeleesene Gesichte van het Wijdvermaarde Loo als andere vorstelijke Huisen (series title)
Admirandorum quadruplex spectaculum (series title)
Published by Pieter Schenk); Dutch, out of copyright

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