I stayed at the four-star Palace Hotel on Oxford Street, set in the Grade II listed Victorian splendour of the former Refuge Assurance building built by
Alfred Waterhouse and son Paul between 1890 and 1910.
There was Edmund Sharpe, the scholar architect with a passion for Romanesque buildings; John Ruskin, passing his doomed honeymoon in Venice; and the relatively inexperienced
Alfred Waterhouse winning the competition to design the Natural History Museum.
Since 1992, the building, designed in 1880 by
Alfred Waterhouse, has been one of England's top destinations for film scoring and has played host to composers on "Batman Begins," "Ray" and "Shrek 2," as well as Shore's work for "Gangs of New York" and "The Cell."
The big house was designed in 1876 by Sir
Alfred Waterhouse, famous for his vision for the National History Museum.
Alfred Waterhouse designed Reading town hall in the 1870s (before going on to his masterpiece, the Natural History Museum in London).
Benjamin Woodward, whose Oxford Museum (1855) is usually considered the purest "Ruskinian" structure, George Gilbert Scott, George Edmond Street, John Pollard Seddon,
Alfred Waterhouse, William Burges, E.
It was designed by the famous architect
Alfred Waterhouse for widow Mrs Anne Turner, for whom it was built as a memorial to her merchant and MP husband Charles.
The first part was designed by
Alfred Waterhouse in 1891, the second constructed by his son Paul and the final section added in the 1930s.
The online description says: "Joseph Pease, the Stockton to Darlington railway pioneer, had Cleveland House and the surrounding properties designed as part of his estate by
Alfred Waterhouse who also designed the Natural History Museum in London and the Town Hall in Manchester.
It was used on the first buildings of the South Kensington Museum--now the V&A--on the Albert Hall and the elaborate buildings of Dulwich College;
Alfred Waterhouse made the Natural History Museum almost entirely out of ceramic blocks.
The Victoria Gallery and Museum is housed in the Grade IIlisted Victoria Building, designed by
Alfred Waterhouse.
It was built just before the end of the 19th century and designed by
Alfred Waterhouse, a prominent Victorian architect.