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Book SynopsisThe iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam’s projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood’s map of London (1792-99), enabling the reader to recognise Adam’s work as they move around the city, as well as to envisage London as if more of his ingenious designs had been executed or survived demolition.
Table of ContentsForeword; Map of London; Introduction; Whitehall; Westminster Abbey – funerary monuments; Northumberland House, Strand; The Adelphi; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Charing Cross; King’s Bench Prison, Southwark; Lloyd’s Coffee House, Cornhill; Aldersgate Street; Lincoln’s Inn; Southampton Row; Soho Square; Charlotte Street; Mansfield Street and New Cavendish Street; Portland Place; Clerk House, Duchess Street; Chandos House, Queen Anne Street; Portman Square; Grosvenor Square; Hill Street; Berkeley Square; Curzon Street; Hertford Street; Lock Hospital, Grosvenor Place; Buckingham House; Piccadilly; Deputy Ranger’s Lodge, Green Park; Arlington Street; Dover Street; Pall Mall; Haymarket Opera House; St James’s Square
