Leslie Green
Leslie William Green (* 1875 in London ; † August 31, 1908 there ) was a British architect . He became known through numerous station buildings of the London Underground in the city center of London in the first decade of the 20th century. Most have been preserved and still serve as access to underground stations on the Northern Line , Bakerloo Line and Piccadilly Line .
biography
Green grew up in Maida Vale, London; he was the son of the architect and royal surveyor Arthur Green and his wife Emily. After studying in London and Paris , he opened an architecture office in 1897. In 1902 he married Mildred Ethel Wildy and had a daughter with her. Green's early work included houses and shops in different parts of the capital. In 1899 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects .
In 1903, Green was commissioned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London of the US financier Charles Tyson Yerkes to build station buildings for three underground lines that were then under construction. These lines were the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP & BR), the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) and the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE & HR), which later became the Piccadilly Line , Bakerloo Line and Northern Line developed.
The access buildings were designed in a uniform style based on the Arts and Crafts Movement . These were two-story buildings with a structural steel frame - a new construction method at the time that had only recently been introduced from the United States . The steel frame enabled the large interiors for counter halls and elevator shafts. The walls were clad with blood-red glazed terracotta bricks. The upper floor had large semicircular windows and serrated cornices above .
The station buildings were given flat roofs, with the intention of adding additional floors for commercial use. Many of the buildings that have been preserved are now under monument protection . At the platform level, the stations received a standardized tile design with the station name, an individual color scheme and repetitive geometric patterns.
It was planned to open the subways in 1906 and 1907. The pressure placed on him to erect dozens of buildings in a short period of time led to health problems for Green. He contracted tuberculosis and died in 1908 at the age of 33.
List of station buildings from Leslie Green
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Piccadilly Line:
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Northern Line:
Bakerloo Line: |
literature
David Leboff: The Underground Stations of Leslie Green. Capital Transport, London 2002, ISBN 1854142550 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Exploring 20th Century London - Leslie Green
- ↑ FreeBMD - Marriage Register
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 28198, HMSO, London, November 20, 1908, p. 8639 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Green, Leslie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, Leslie William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1908 |
| Place of death | London |