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was very critical of the building's architecture, saying: "The scale is wrong, the symmetry is wrong. The proximity to a classical façade put up by the same firm at the same time is wrong, and the goings-on of a store behind such a façade (and below those twisted Tudor chimneys) are wrongest of all".
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and was an active participant in drawing up the Institute’s charter in 1887. He was known as "Bye law Hall" not only because of his incisive legal mind but for the major part he played in drafting the updating of the
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for 22 years and its chairman from 1908 to 1910. In addition to the Old Library, other local projects included Camberwell Public Library and Council Offices, and the completion of the British Home for Incurables in
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Born in 1851, the son of architect George Hall, he started independent practice in London in 1876, and is best known for his work designing hospitals. He won the 1894 competition for the design of
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His large architectural practice also designed a number of factories, offices, churches, houses and flats. Amongst these are Sloane Mansions in
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Hall also provided the initial concept for the Sunray Gardens Estate. The advanced concept advocated a
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Hall's most noted work, which he undertook with his son, was the design of the
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style was designed around the ideas of the store's owner,
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layout with innovative integral community facilities.
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and St Ermin's Mansions in 1889 (which later became
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Liberty & Co.
architect
Liberty & Co.
Dulwich College
Hither Green Infectious Diseases Hospital
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Leeds
Homoeopathic Hospital
Queen Square
Peckham
Sloane Square
St Ermin's Hotel
Westminster

Regent Street
Liberty & Co.
listed building
Crown Estate
Great Marlborough Street
mock Tudor
Arthur Liberty
HMS Impregnable
HMS Hindustan
Nikolaus Pevsner
Royal Institute of British Architects
London Building Acts
The Dulwich Estate
Streatham
garden city
Liberty & Co.

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