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Baynard House is a brutalist office block in Queen Victoria Street in the Blackfriars area of London, occupied by BT Group. It was built on the former site of Baynard's Castle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BT Museum )〕 Most of the site under Baynard House is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.〔Jackson (2009ii) p42 Figure 16 shows the extent of the Scheduled Ancient Monument; see Baynard's Castle article for source〕 The building was designed by the architect William Holford.〔(Baynard House ), Esoteric London, February , 2012〕 It incorporates Holford's ideas on the separation of pedestrians from vehicle traffic, with a first floor level public walkway along Victoria Street that connects to Blackfriars station. The entrance foyer to Baynard House remains off this first floor level. A plaque in the building foyer reads: "BAYNARD HOUSE handed over on 5th July 1979 to PETER BENTON Esq., Managing Director Telecommunications, Architects: Holford/ PSA; Construction: John Laing"〔Plaque located in the entrance foyer of Baynard House, Observed May 2012〕 Legislation protecting the views of St Paul's restricted the overall height of the building to just three levels above ground.〔(Faraday House ), Ornamental Passions, February 2009〕 Baynard House was formerly a telephone exchange, and housed the first operational System X telephone exchange, which went live in 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Digital switching )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BT Archives: Events in Telecommunications History: 1980 )〕 The Faraday Building, one of the first major telephone exchanges in the UK, is nearby. From 1982 to 1997, Baynard House housed the BT Museum. It is the site of an unusual cast aluminium public sculpture by Richard Kindersley, entitled ''The Seven Ages of Man''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project: The Seven Ages of Man (sculpture), Baynard House )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Seven Ages of Man, Queen Victoria Street )〕 The sculpture, consisting of a column made up of sculptural heads resembling a totem pole, was commissioned by Post Office Telecommunications and unveiled in April 1980. it had the largest solar panel area of any building in the City of London and the second largest of a corporate building in the UK.〔(BT to build UK's second largest solar-powered roof ) BT Today, 11 April 2011〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baynard House, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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