B&B visit - Royal Danish Embassy, Sloane Street, London, Arne Jacobsen 1975 (i think)

About a fortnight ago we amazingly managed another building visit, first to Jacobsen's Danish Embassy, (thanks to Louise for showing us round) and then by foot to H R Cadbury Brown's Royal College of Art. Thanks Boris for the tour of the architecture dept at very short notice.

Jacobsen's Embassy we reckoned to be a painstakingly bespoke building in the guise of something effortlessly modular.  The modular 'concept' (we're back in the 70s here) follows through from the large scale (ie the facades) to the small - eg the simple but pretty nice meccano style staircase.  There are lots of ventilation grilles - clearly a good thing - and it's all done in a sort of second world war camouflage grey/green...and why not.

a short distance away on the opposite side of Sloane Street we have this very smart office/retail affair.

and more or less opposite this, we have ...

Slab & tower period piece maybe by Richard Seifert and, I ought to know, but this surely is also Seifert...

Continuing along south side of Hyde Park couldn't walk past Basil Spence's barracks without taking a few photos...