Where is India Buildings?

India Buildings is in North Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.4060°, -2.9926°.

Gardens · North Wales

India Buildings

India Buildings — a garden in wales-north, United Kingdom.

Oriel Chambers, Water Street, Liverpool - geograph.org.uk - 2837794 — Stephen Richards — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

India Buildings is a garden of interest in wales-north, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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India Buildings is a commercial building with its principal entrance on Water Street in Liverpool, England. Mainly an office building, it also contains an internal shopping arcade and the entrance to an underground station. It was built between 1924 and 1932, damaged by a bomb in 1941, and later restored to its original condition under the supervision of one of its original architects. The building, its design influenced by the Italian Renaissance and incorporating features of the American Beaux-Arts style, occupies an entire block in the city.

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Background

History

India Buildings was built between 1924 and 1932. The competition for its design was won in 1923 by Arnold Thornely and Herbert J. Rowse, the assessor being Giles Gilbert Scott. It was built as a speculative venture by the shipping firm of Richard Durning Holt and Alfred Holt and Company (the Blue Funnel Line) partly for its own use, and partly for letting offices to other businesses. It was built by Dove Brothers of Islington, its steelwork being made and erected by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough. The cost of the building was £1.25 million (equivalent to £}} in ). The building replaced an older one on the site known as "India Building", built in the 1830s for George Holt, the father of…

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