Thread by @joncstone, Might do an occasional thread about Art Deco buildings I see in [...]

Might do an occasional thread about Art Deco buildings I see in London... there’s quite a lot but they seem to get overlooked compared to other styles. Maybe because British Art Deco is often quite understated compared to other examples? Here’s Crownleigh Court in Brixton

London Fire Brigade Headquarters on Albert Embankment has a lovely Art Deco facade, in need of a bit of TLC – bei Old London Fire Brigade Headquarters

Chaplin House in Brixton, round the back of Electric Avenue. Is this Art Deco? Probably

Part of an Art Deco brick church in Camberwell, I’m afraid I didn’t get the name

Colliers Wood Tube station - as you get further out into suburbia I’ve always thought of tube stations as little outposts of London state

Sorry for the terrible photo but I cycled past the old Merton Park Telephone exchange building the other day and thought it was pretty cool

Christchurch House in Streatham Hill, a nifty apartment block with some cool details

Two big setpieces from Streatham Hill, probably ex-cinemas.... really notable that these sorts of buildings are *not* in demand, these two are currently a flooring shop and a ‘Cashino’ – bei Streatham Hill Railway Station (SRH)

Here’s a great one in Streatham where the current tenants have done it justice - look at those elephants at the top

Here’s Tooting Bec tube station - note the London Transport roundel detailing on the columns – bei Tooting Bec London Underground Station

Here’s Tooting Police Station... like an open book – bei Tooting Police Station

A municipal building in Tooting, the wings on the side have ‘Telephone exchange’ and ‘Employment exchange’ engraved above the doors

Dumbarton Court on Brixton Hill - great building, didn’t look like it was in a great state of repair – bei Dumbarton Court

Quite a weird one in Tooting with a number of different units at the front, not sure if that’s the original setup or if it’s even Art Deco, or whether my eyes were playing tricks on me

Nothing special from Streatham but I know you lot like rounded corners. One of my hobbies is looking above the plastic chain hoardings on UK high streets and realising that the buildings are actually great but nobody ever sees them due to the road layout and shop signage

Bingo hall in Tooting that was definitely a theatre or cinema. Look at the faces on the top of the columns

Moira Court on Balham High Road has a great entrance feature – bei Moira Court

Du Cane Court in Balham... this place is absolutely huge – bei Du Cane Court

One cool thing about so many Art Deco buildings being telephone exchanges and cinemas is the reminder that these two things were both being built en masse in Britain for the first time in a relatively short period and both would have felt magically hi-tech at the time

An era-appropriate London bus was driving past the Daily Express building on Fleet Street just as I photographed it – bei Fleet Street

The Daily Tekegraph building on Fleet Street is quite something - note Peterborough Court; until 2003 the paper’s diary column was called Peterborough

56 Fleet Street, I like the orange. Lots of more classic Art Deco on here

Bush House, the writing says ‘to the friendship of the English speaking peoples’. It was built as an international trade centre and was previously the BBC World Service headquarters

This building has always felt Art Deco to me when I’ve walked past and admired it but now I look again maybe it isn’t. It’s on Judd Street in King’s Cross