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Bracken House London is a building at 10 Cannon Street in the City of London, occupied by the ''Financial Times'' newspaper until the 1980s. ==Background== A late example of modern classicism, it was constructed from 1955 to 1958 to a design by Sir Albert Richardson to serve as the headquarters and printing works of the ''Financial Times'' newspaper, on a cleared bomb site southeast of St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a Grade II * listed building, and was the first building built after the Second World War to become listed. New offices were required for the ''Financial Times'' after it merged with the ''Financial News'' in 1945. The building was named after Brendan Bracken, who became Viscount Bracken in 1952. The building was clad in pink sandstone from Hollington, Staffordshire as an allusion to the characteristic pink colour of the newspaper, with red bricks and bronze windows, contracting with the verdigris of the copper roof. Editorial offices were located in the northern range, beside Cannon Street, with printing machinery in an octagonal structure in the centre, and more offices to the south, by Queen Victoria Street. Above the entrance on Cannon Street is an astrological clock, decorated with the face of Winston Churchill at the centre of a large gold sunburst, designed by Frank Dobson and Philip Bentham and made by Thwaites & Reed. 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「Bracken House, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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