I rarely see St James's Park mentioned amongst people's favourite stations but I have to say it is one of mine. I know brutalist architecture isn't for everybody, and often brings to mind Kafkaesque bureaucracy. But I just think it's got so much character personally.

by DatGuyGandhi

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  1. Selling off 55 Broadway (the TFL Head Office over the station) was one of the most crass, stupid examples of privatisation, I believe they are in leased offices near The Shard now, idiotic.

  3. It’s a classic of Charles Holden’s work. Style is more Edwardian like than Brutalist but yes not as popular due to just serving district and circle lines

  4. An absolutely lovely building but most definitely not Brutalist, it is an Art Deco/Edwardian mix.

  5. It’s going to become a hotel. The original features are largely going to be preserved. A lot more people will get to recognise it and enjoy it than when it was a TFL office.

    And yes it’s not brutalist. It’s Art-Deco influenced Modernist.

  6. This was my stop for a while when I worked on Petty France. Lovely station.

  7. I used to work in the building, and it is beautiful, but if you worked on the first couple of floors, you felt the vibrations every time a train came through underneath.

  9. I used to like going through those doors shown (with the clock above) where they had several indicators (for want of a better word) that would register the frequency of tube trains on several lines.

    Then they stopped the general public’s access :[

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