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Portland House

London, Italy

Portland House

Portland House is a skyscraper in Westminster, London. It is 101 metres (331 ft) tall with 29 floors. The building was the central feature of the redevelopment of the six-acre (2.5-hectare) old Watney's Brewery site. The architects were Howard, Fairbairn & Partners, and the development took place fr

om 1959 to 1963. Pevsner notes that the architectural form of Portland House was influenced by the Pirelli Tower (1955–58) in Milan by architect Gio Ponti. The development was known as Stag Place. Today the site is Cardinal Place. The building has two banks of lifts — the first serving the first up to the fifteenth floor, and the second the fifteenth floor upwards. When first opened, Blue Circle Industries occupied floors 16–29, as well as the ground floor. Other firms that have at one point occupied Portland House for office space include American Express, Crossrail, HomeAway UK, Owners Direct, Direct Ferries Orbus Software, Increase the Wedge, NetBooster, Somo Global, TradeDoubler, Wunder2, uSwitch, Upmystreet.com, Reef Television, Rentokil Initial, AkzoNobel, Monica Vinader and IWG. The building also once contained the head offices of British United Airways. The building is a five-minute...

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