Fake 23

For once, gmaps a little out of date in central London, but this snap is believed to have come from a recently refurbished building at the top of the street which is quaintly named York Buildings, the street which runs southeast from its junction with John Adam Street. This last being the home of the once very grand Adelphi Hotel, used for Poirot films and at one time, possibly no longer, as a headquarters building for the DHSS or perhaps the DSS (now further rebadged as the DWP).

This building is included as a fake for the black steel girder, very Tate Modern turbine hall, worked into the decorative scheme for this front door into something or other. Although given that the steel might quite possibly still be structural, whimsy might be a fairer term than fake.

PS 1: I had thought the Tate steel had come from Kirkcaldy, a relative of the testing establishment of the same name in Southwark Street, but I now find that the latter is actually called Kirkaldy, so perhaps no relative at all. At least I now know that the latter is, or at least was, open on Sundays, so maybe I will get to visit. While the best that the blog can do is reference 2, although I feel sure I have snapped the steel in question at some point. Hopefully I will remember to check when next at the Tate.

PS 2: we had forgotten about the very grand carriage entrance on the river side of the Hotel. At least what might once have been a hotel, but is now office space. See reference 1.

Reference 1: http://adelphibuilding.com/.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/basement-3.html.