Might do an occasional thread about Art Deco buildings I see in London... there’s quite a lot but they seem to get overlooked compared to other styles. Maybe because British Art Deco is often quite understated compared to other examples? Here’s Crownleigh Court in Brixton

London Fire Brigade Headquarters on Albert Embankment has a lovely Art Deco facade, in need of a bit of TLC – bei Old London Fire Brigade Headquarters

Chaplin House in Brixton, round the back of Electric Avenue. Is this Art Deco? Probably

Part of an Art Deco brick church in Camberwell, I’m afraid I didn’t get the name

Colliers Wood Tube station - as you get further out into suburbia I’ve always thought of tube stations as little outposts of London state

Sorry for the terrible photo but I cycled past the old Merton Park Telephone exchange building the other day and thought it was pretty cool

Christchurch House in Streatham Hill, a nifty apartment block with some cool details

Two big setpieces from Streatham Hill, probably ex-cinemas.... really notable that these sorts of buildings are *not* in demand, these two are currently a flooring shop and a ‘Cashino’ – bei Streatham Hill Railway Station (SRH)

Here’s a great one in Streatham where the current tenants have done it justice - look at those elephants at the top

Here’s Tooting Bec tube station - note the London Transport roundel detailing on the columns – bei Tooting Bec London Underground Station

Here’s Tooting Police Station... like an open book – bei Tooting Police Station

A municipal building in Tooting, the wings on the side have ‘Telephone exchange’ and ‘Employment exchange’ engraved above the doors

Dumbarton Court on Brixton Hill - great building, didn’t look like it was in a great state of repair – bei Dumbarton Court

Quite a weird one in Tooting with a number of different units at the front, not sure if that’s the original setup or if it’s even Art Deco, or whether my eyes were playing tricks on me

Nothing special from Streatham but I know you lot like rounded corners. One of my hobbies is looking above the plastic chain hoardings on UK high streets and realising that the buildings are actually great but nobody ever sees them due to the road layout and shop signage

Bingo hall in Tooting that was definitely a theatre or cinema. Look at the faces on the top of the columns

Moira Court on Balham High Road has a great entrance feature – bei Moira Court

Du Cane Court in Balham... this place is absolutely huge – bei Du Cane Court

One cool thing about so many Art Deco buildings being telephone exchanges and cinemas is the reminder that these two things were both being built en masse in Britain for the first time in a relatively short period and both would have felt magically hi-tech at the time

An era-appropriate London bus was driving past the Daily Express building on Fleet Street just as I photographed it – bei Fleet Street

The Daily Tekegraph building on Fleet Street is quite something - note Peterborough Court; until 2003 the paper’s diary column was called Peterborough

56 Fleet Street, I like the orange. Lots of more classic Art Deco on here

Bush House, the writing says ‘to the friendship of the English speaking peoples’. It was built as an international trade centre and was previously the BBC World Service headquarters

This building has always felt Art Deco to me when I’ve walked past and admired it but now I look again maybe it isn’t. It’s on Judd Street in King’s Cross

Beautiful Art Deco pub in Seven Dials – bei Two Brewers

Amazing Odeon on Shaftesbury Avenue with a massive relief frieze – bei Odeon

55 Broadway, London Underground’s HQ, incorporating St James’s Park station.... more Potemkin sky bridges please

This on Peckham Rye has really let itself go but is generally fantastic – bei Peckham Rye Railway Station (PMR)

Nearly missed this one in Balham that is now a not particularly majestic wine shop. The tiling has aged poorly I think because plastic facsimiles of the style were common in the noughties so it feels cheaper than it is?

Cool Art Deco flats on Pancras Road in Camden

“Churchill” on Lambeth Road has a very art deco entrance and cool streamline balconies – bei Imperial War Museum

Intersting one here in Stockwell - very basic modern building but with quite an ornate Art Deco portico

Another subtly Art Deco telephone exchange, this time in Victoria

Adelaide House on London Bridge... I’m a big fan of an Art Deco statue

Nice buttress on this estate near London Bridge, didn’t catch the name I’m afraid (that’s the Shard behind it)

A bit of unexpected Art Deco spotted at Paddington station

Brixton H&M... look above the plastic boarding on a lot of chain shops in UK towns and you’ll find similar, Art Deco or otherwise – bei Brixton London Underground Station

Slightly more subtle but still detectably Art Deco in the building next door – bei Brixton London Underground Station

This nice thing on the corner in Stockwell, currently no tenant

I like this residential block on the corner of Streatham Common - cool streamlined balconies – bei Streatham Common

This in Streatham is in terrible shape but look at the remains of that Art Deco clock – bei Tesco Extra

Interesting Art Deco around the back of the guildhall in the City

And this in Leyton

This Iceland in Leyton is also a surprise if you look up

Cool Art Deco window thing going on at Poynders Court in Clapham

And on the Oaklands Estate in Clapham, very cool long sweeping streamlined balconies

Hightrees House on the corner of Clapham Common

Quite understated in Thornton, set in lovely parkland like good modernism should be

Marsham Court near the Home Office in Westminster - there are lots of dourly Art Deco apartment buildings down the backstreets of Westminster – bei Westminster Gardens

Took these this morning... I honestly hadn’t noticed that Victoria coach station looked quite nice from the outside before – bei Victoria Coach Station

A subtle bit of streamlining on Clapham High Street

Broadhurst Gardens in South Hampstead, looking very film noir this evening

extra film-noir edition of this building as suggested by @ejhchess

No idea what this is but it’s visible from the Grand Union canal towpath at Greenford – bei Greenford Quay

Uxbridge tube station, very Art Deco indeed

Art Deco-ish interior at St John’s Wood tube station – bei St. John's Wood London Underground Station

Lawn Road flats in Hampstead... former home of architect Walter Gropius – bei Isokon Building

This building has an incredible history: it was owned by the New Statesman for a few years, was the home of several Soviet spies and thus long under surveillance by British intelligence, and the flats were originally served by a communal kitchen connected to them by a dumb waiter

Absolute Art Deco palace on Kilburn High Road, now a church, and possibly still nominally a theatre? – bei Ruach Ministries Kilburn

These smart flats are on an island in the middle of the one-way system at Swiss Cottage – bei Regency Lodge

And these are around the corner next to Finchley Road tube

Let the artdecoposting resume: the old Craven ‘A’ factory just south of Mornington Crescent

The national audit office building! look at those wingéd figures over the entrance auditing the world! (It’s actually a former check-in terminal and HQ for Imperial Airways) – bei National Audit Office

The Apollo Victoria, built as an Art Deco cinema and now used as a stage theatre for the musical Wicked. Including this lovely relief detail hinting at its former purpose – bei Apollo Victoria Theatre