G. Kay Green

George Kay Green was a Scottish architect.

Green was active in Edinburgh from at least 1897,[1] when he went into partnership there with William H. McLachlan,[2] before moving to London, where he created large Art Deco apartment blocks.

In 1927 Green was a director of Peacehaven Estates Ltd, Peacehaven Hotel Company Ltd, Peacehaven Water Company Ltd, and Peacehaven Electric Light Company Ltd., which had an address at South Coast Road, Peacehaven, Sussex.[3] In 1928 the companies also had an office at 7, Pall Mall, Westminster, and the directors were Lord Teynham (Chairman), C. W. Neville (Managing Director), and Green.[4] Peacehaven was a large self-build development described in 1940 as "a holiday resort or bungalow-town... founded at the end of the War of 1914–18. It lies at the edge of the cliffs, its plan being a grid of unmade roads".[5]

Green designed Sloane Avenue Mansions, an 11-storey Art Deco residential building in Chelsea, London, built between 1931 and 1933.[6][7][8] Other buildings he designed include Du Cane Court, Balham High Road, Balham,[9] and Nell Gwynn House in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, which was finished in 1937.[10]

When Du Cane Court was completed in 1934, it was the largest block of fiats in Britain.[11]

References

  1. ↑ David Goold. "Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report". Scottisharchitects.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  2. ↑ George Kay Green at themodernhouse.com
  3. ↑ The Directory of Directors for 1927 (Thomas Skinner & Co, 1927), p. 625
  4. ↑ Garcke's Manual of Electricity Supply, Volume 32 (Electrical Press Limited, 1928), p. 752
  5. ↑ 'Parishes: Piddinghoe', in L. F. Salzman, ed., A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes (London, 1940), pp. 66-69 at British History Online, accessed 14 January 2018
  6. ↑ "Sloane Avenue Mansions". Emporis. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Concrete and Constructional Engineering. 29. Concrete Publications. 1934. p. 14.
  8. ↑ "Sloane Avenue Mansions, London". manchesterhistory. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Du Cane Court, Balham High Road, Balham, London: the foyer with revolving doors | RIBA". Architecture.com. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  10. ↑ "Nell Gwynn House". London Deco Flats. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  11. ↑ Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 27 (Huguenot Society, 1998), p. 142
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