Senate House Library
Todays picture is of the fine building of Senate House, which houses the University of London Library. Apart from being an astonishing research resource, there is a little bit of their background which is amusing enough to warrant repeating.
The library was looking for a home after the war, so they were given an older building to use, which they fitted out as required. Unfortunately, when they put books on the shelves, they found that it was all too heavy and the shelves were pulled off the walls, and floors collapsed. So they got this built.
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Runour has it that if Hitler had invaded England in 1940, it would be this building that the Nazi Headquaters would have been housed in.
Brin
If I get it right, the germans would have settled in the collapsing old building!
Nice story. Not sure how much of it was based in fact though, what with Senate House being built in 1936 and housing the Ministry of Information during the second world war. (More information )
You might notice its similarity to distant stations on the piccadilly line by the same architect, Charles Holden.