From the archives: The Daily Express Building, 1932

By Tom Lowe2023-10-30T07:00:00

The Builder reviews the newly built Fleet Street landmark, now considered one of London’s best Art Deco buildings

The Daily Express Building on Fleet Street is one of London’s most striking Art Deco buildings. Even today, the 90-year-old grade II*-listed building looks like it could be a freshly built glass and steel office block.

The Builder described it in 1932 as undoubtedly the “youngest and brightest” of a series of buildings on the street designed in the stripped back, futuristic modern style of architecture that became fashionable after the First World War. The publication’s reviewer described its famous lobby as ”so full of colour and brightness that the eye is taken by surprise”.

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