Aston Webb

As an architect, Edward Aston Webb has created some of the most familiar buildings in the British Isles, yet as a name, he is not as recognisable as Edwin Lutyens, Norman Foster, Mies van der Rohe or Frank Lloyd Wright.

Probably the most famous building that Webb has been involved with is the front of Buckingham Palace, followed by the Victoria Memorial, Admiralty Arch and the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington.

In Birmingham, he designed the Arts & Crafts style Victoria Law Courts, and the central building of the Chancellor's Court at the University of Birmingham. They obviously liked it so much, they named it the Aston Webb building. He and his cohort, Edward Ingress Bell, were also responsible for the clock tower I blipped yesterday.

This blip is actually the foyer ceiling just outside the Main Hall. If you watch the BBCs Question Time, this is often used as the Birmingham location.

Well that's Birmingham done for this week, Norwich beckons!