2-879-076 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Minories Car Park, 1 Shorter Street, City of London, 29/09/1969. The entrance to the staircase of the City Engineer's Highways Depot, built as part of the contract for Minories Car Park. The building was connected to the basement of the car park. It housed workshops, a canteen and rest room, offices and a caretaker's flat. The surface treatment of the exterior walls is visible in this photograph. Hemlock boards were used on the shuttering to leave an impression of the timber in the concrete surfaces. The architect EG Chandler took inspiration from Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank for this surface treatment. The complicated shape of the building meant its construction was difficult. No two sections of shuttering were the same so they could not be reused for a different part of the building.