The images show Keith Williams Architects’ shortlisted project for the new landmark Metropolitan Police HQ on London’s Victoria Embankment in the heart of Whitehall.
The international architectural design competition administered by the RIBA Competitions Office attracted a world-class field of architects with a great many expressions of interest from the UK and abroad. Along with Keith Williams Architects, the other shortlisted architects were Foster & Partners, AHMM, Lifschutz Davison Sandilands and Allies & Morrison.
The 10,000m2 project involved the remodelling, repurposing and extension of the 1930s Curtis Green Building, a former police station next to Old Scotland Yard to create the new Metropolitan Police HQ. The Curtis Green Building neighbours the Norman Shaw Buildings, the Ministry of Defence buildings, and Richmond and Portcullis Houses, and features clearly as an important historic building on London’s riverside prospect.
The Curtis Green Building within the Whitehall Conservation Area, was originally designed in 1935 by the architect William Curtis Green, after whom the building was named and became the Met Police’s new HQ as the Met’s then current base on Broadway in London’s Victoria was vacated in 2015.
The redevelopment of the Curtis Green building, forms part of the largest ever transformation of the police estate with the goal of ensuring the Metropolitan Police Service remains at the forefront of 21st century policing.
