Curtis Green Building

An aerial view of the Norman Shaw and Curtis Green Buildings on London's Victoria Embankment. The Curtis Green Building is situated on the far right.

The Curtis Green Building, formally known as Whitehall Police Station,[1] is a large, municipal building, located on the Victoria Embankment in London. It is situated within the Whitehall Conservation Area, and neighbours the former site of New Scotland Yard, the Ministry of Defence building, and Richmond House. The Curtis Green building is, and has been since its construction, owned by the Metropolitan Police Service. It was designed by the English architect William Curtis Green and features a stone fronted, neo-classical design. Construction started in 1935, finished five years later, and was intended to be used as an extension to the then Scotland Yard building,[2][3] now known as the Norman Shaw Buildings.[4]

The Curtis Green Building served as part of the Met's headquarters during the Second World War and was the home to the forensics and technology departments. The force relocated their main headquarters to 10 Broadway in 1967 and sold the Scotland Yard Buildings to the British Government.[3] The Curtis Green Building remained a police building and became a sub-HQ for the force's territorial department until 2010. The building's dimensions measure at 8,691m2 with a total capable capacity at 10,000m2.[2]

In 2013 it was announced by the Met that the current site of New Scotland Yard at 10 Broadway will be relocated back to the Curtis Green Building as part of the force's drive to reduce costs. The building is to be redesigned to meet modern policing requirements and will receive a multi-million pound refurbishment during 2015–16,[2] and upon its completion would to be re-named "Scotland Yard".[5] The refurbishment contract was awarded to the architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris who will re-design the building and the project will be engineered by the Arup Group Limited, with construction responsibilities undertaken by the Royal BAM Group.[6] The Met will retain and rename the current revolving "New Scotland Yard" sign and move it to the Curtis Green Building[5] along with the Black Museum.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "New Metropolitan Police HQ announced as Curtis Green Building", BBC News, 20 May 2013, accessed 3 April 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Curtis Green: Metropolitan Police Service New HQ Building", Royal Institute of British Architects, accessed 3 April 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Norman Shaw Buidings" House of Commons fact sheet, p. 4, accessed 3 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Daylight robbery? New Scotland Yard is bought for £370m by developer" by Julia Kollewe, The Guardian, 9 December 2014, accessed 3 April 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "BAM nabs £30m Scotland Yard HQ contract", Construction Enquirer website, accessed 3 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "New Metropolitan Police headquarters project underway", Arup Group Limited website, accessed 3 April 2015.

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Coordinates: 51°30′10″N 0°7′27″W / 51.50278°N 0.12417°W