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The Daily Mail offices at the Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London, 1908. A white stucco building, the dome of which lit up at night. The exhibition aimed to promote the achievements of Britain and France. Pavilions and exhibition halls were built on a 140 acre site in Shepherd's Bush. The site was given the nickname White City because of the white stucco facades of all the buildings. When London underground opened a tube station there in the 1950s it was given this name as a reminder of the site's history.