Embankment Place: Campaigners Demand Grade II* Listing For Charing Cross Building

Will Noble

Embankment Place: Campaigners Demand Grade II* Listing For Charing Cross Building

C20 wants Terry Farrell's postmodern 'Palace on the River' to be granted Grade II* listing. Image: Londonist

The Twentieth Century Society (C20) has called for the Grade II* listing of Embankment Place — the glassy barrel-roofed office complex hovering about Charing Cross station.

Charing Cross station lost its original barrel-shaped roof in a tragic collapse in 1905, which was then replaced with a less impressive flat one. It wasn't until 1989 that construction began on Terry Farrell's postmodern 'Palace on the River', an 'air rights' building which suspends nine storeys of offices above the station, isolating the space from the thrum of tracks below.