| 词条 | Congress House | ||||
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|image = Westminster, Congress House - geograph.org.uk - 1402489.jpg |image_size = |name = Congress House |status = |caption = Congress House |location = Great Russell Street, Holborn, London WC1B 3LS, England |coordinates = |roof = |antenna_spire = |floor_count = |completion_date = 1958 |floor_area = |client = |architect = David du Roi Aberdeen |structural_engineer = |services_engineer = |other_designers = |main_contractor = |url = }} Congress House is the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), a British organisation that represents most of the UK's trade unions. In 1948, David du Roi Aberdeen won an architectural competition to design the new TUC headquarters building in Great Russell Street, London.[1] Staff began to move into the offices in 1956. Congress House was officially opened on 27 March 1958 along with the unveiling of a giant pietà-style statue of a woman holding her dead son. Carved in place in the internal courtyard by Jacob Epstein, it was intended as a memorial to the dead trade unionists of both world wars.[2] The front of the building is dominated by a bronze sculpture by Bernard Meadows representing the spirit of trade unionism with the strong helping the weak.[1] Congress House was one of the earliest post-war buildings to be listed at Grade II*, in 1988.[3][4]. In 2015 an ETFE roof was installed over the internal courtyard which enabled the glass roof of the conference centre below to be reinstated and affords protection to the Epstein statue.[5][6] GalleryReferences1. ^1 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205230408/http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/tuc-7646-f0.cfm |date=December 5, 2010 }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unionhistory.info/index.php |title=The Union Makes Us Strong – TUC History Online |publisher=Unionhistory.info |date= |accessdate=2015-07-26}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Congress House|url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/congress-house-london-wc1/|website=c20society|accessdate=26 July 2015}} 4. ^{{Images of England|num=477672|accessdate=4 May 2009}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020040634/https://hbarchitects.co.uk/congress-house-courtyard-roof/|title=TUC Congress House {{!}} Hugh Broughton Architects|last=Architects|first=Hugh Broughton|access-date=2016-10-20}} at Archive.org. 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.congresscentre.co.uk/|title=Home|author=|date=|website=Congress Centre|accessdate=14 February 2019}} External links{{Commons cat inline|Congress House, Great Russell Street, London}}
3 : Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden|Office buildings completed in 1958|Labour movement in the United Kingdom |
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