Curtis Green Building
| New Scotland Yard | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Neo-classical |
| Construction started | 1935 |
| Completed | 1940 |
| Owner | Metropolitan Police Service |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 8,691 m2 (93,550 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | William Curtis Green |
New Scotland Yard, formerly known as the Curtis Green Building, and before that Whitehall Police Station, is a large municipal building located on Victoria Embankment in London. It is situated within the Whitehall Conservation Area, and neighbours the two Norman Shaw Buildings, the Ministry of Defence building, and Richmond House. The Curtis Green building is, and has been since its construction, owned by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). It was the third of three buildings that together constituted the MPS's first New Scotland Yard location (1890–1967). The building's exterior and interior were refurbished in 2015–2016 and, since November 2016, it has been the third and current location of New Scotland Yard.
The stone-fronted, neo-classical building was designed by the English architect William Curtis Green. Construction started in 1935 and was finished five years later. The building was constructed as a third building and an extension to the then–New Scotland Yard building, which consisted of two buildings that had been completed in 1890 and 1906 and were connected by a bridge. Those two buildings are now known as the Norman Shaw Buildings. These are now parliamentary offices.
The Curtis Green Building served as part of the Met's three-building headquarters during the Second World War and housed the forensics and technology departments. In 1967, the force relocated its main headquarters to 10 Broadway and sold the two Norman Shaw buildings to the British Government. The Curtis Green Building, however, remained a police building and became a sub-HQ for the force's territorial department until 2010. Before its 2015–2016 refurbishment, the building's dimensions were 8,691 m2 (93,550 sq ft), with a total capable capacity of 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft).
In 2013 it was announced by the Met that its headquarters would be relocated from 10 Broadway to the Curtis Green Building as part of the force's drive to reduce costs. The building would be redesigned to meet modern policing requirements and would receive a multimillion-pound refurbishment during 2015–16. Once completed it would be renamed "Scotland Yard". The refurbishment contract was awarded to the architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, who redesigned the building, and the project was engineered by the Arup Group Limited, with project and cost management duties undertaken by Arcadis and construction responsibilities undertaken by the Royal BAM Group. The Met has retained the current revolving "New Scotland Yard" sign and have moved it to the Curtis Green Building site, along with the Black Museum.
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