Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.It is named after George, the Prince Regent (later George IV) and was laid out under the direction of the architect John Nash and James Burton.
With the Regent's backing, Nash created a master plan for the area, put into effect from 1818 onwards, which stretched from St James's northwards and included Regent Street, Regent's Park (1809–1832) [56] and its neighbouring streets, terraces and crescents of elegant townhouses and villas. Nash did not design all the buildings himself.
The Royal Gallery of Illustration was a 19th-century performance venue located at 14 Regent Street in London. It was in use between 1850 and 1873. It was in use between 1850 and 1873. The gallery was built in the 1820s by the architect John Nash as part of his own house, to display his considerable collection of paintings.
Bust of the architect John Nash outside the church. The church was designed by John Nash, favourite architect of King George IV.Its prominent circular-spired vestibule was designed as an eye-catching monument at the point where Regent Street, newly-laid out as part of Nash's scheme to link Piccadilly with the new Regent's Park, takes an awkward abrupt bend westward to align with the pre ...
Waterloo Place in 1830, looking northwards into Regent Street towards Piccadilly Circus.. Included in the plan for London prepared by architect John Nash in 1814 was a broad plaza intended as a space for monuments, [2] It would be the southern end of a prestigious new thoroughfare, later known as Regent Street, [3] and would create a grand open area in front of Carlton House, the London ...
John Nash's Clarence House. John Nash was the architect most associated with the Regency style; he was fully in tune with the commercial requirements of developers and designed the Regency terraces of Regent's Park and Regent Street in London. He had many pupils who disseminated his style, or in the case of Pugin rebelled against it.
Regent Street is laid out. The reconstruction of Buckingham Palace by the architect John Nash takes place. The first horse-drawn omnibuses are established in London. The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and Calamities is first published. Approximate date: London is estimated to overtake Peking as the world's ...
It was one of several terraces and crescents around Regent's Park designed by the British architect John Nash (1752–1835), under the patronage of the Prince Regent (later George IV). The terrace was to stand opposite the Prince's proposed palace in the park and was therefore of particular importance in the scheme.