Robert Adam’s London

The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam’s projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood’s map of London (1792-99), enabling the reader to recognise Adam’s work as they move around the city, as well as to envisage London as if more of his ingenious designs had been executed or survived demolition.Table of ContentsForewordMap of LondonIntroductionWhitehallWestminster Abbey – funerary monumentsNorthumberland House, StrandThe AdelphiTheatre Royal, Drury LaneCharing CrossKing’s Bench Prison, SouthwarkLloyd’s Coffee House, CornhillAldersgate StreetLincoln’s InnSouthampton RowSoho SquareCharlotte StreetMansfield Street and New Cavendish StreetPortland PlaceClerk House, Duchess StreetChandos House, Queen Anne StreetPortman SquareGrosvenor SquareHill StreetBerkeley SquareCurzon StreetHertford StreetLock Hospital, Grosvenor PlaceBuckingham HousePiccadillyDeputy Ranger’s Lodge, Green ParkArlington StreetDover StreetPall MallHaymarket Opera HouseSt James’s Square