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The house was designed by the architect [[Ralph Tubbs]] in 1956, whose works included the [[Dome of Discovery]], the highlight of the 1951 [[Festival of Britain]]. Tubbs' floor plans and a model of his design were displayed during a fundraising campaign and exhibition on [[1957-02-21]] in the Egyptian Hall of the [[Mansion House, London|Mansion House]].<ref name="wood"/><ref name="20cs">{{cite web | url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/granada.html | title = The Twentieth Century Society, Building of the Month February 2005 | accessdate = 2006-07-08}}</ref> | The house was designed by the architect [[Ralph Tubbs]] in 1956, whose works included the [[Dome of Discovery]], the highlight of the 1951 [[Festival of Britain]]. Tubbs' floor plans and a model of his design were displayed during a fundraising campaign and exhibition on [[1957-02-21]] in the Egyptian Hall of the [[Mansion House, London|Mansion House]].<ref name="wood"/><ref name="20cs">{{cite web | url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/granada.html | title = The Twentieth Century Society, Building of the Month February 2005 | accessdate = 2006-07-08}}</ref> | ||
The six storied Baden-Powell House is designed in the [[modern architecture|modern]] [[architectural style]], as pioneered by the Swiss architect [[Le Corbusier]] from the late 1920s onwards, and predominating in the 1950s. At Baden-Powell House, Tubbs made the first floor overhang the ground floor, a Le Corbusier architectural design choice to free the building from the ground, such as seen in his [[Pavillon Suisse]] at the [[Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris|Cité Internationale Universitaire]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.archivision.com/analog/screen/P/1A1-LC-PS.jpg | title = Images of the Pavillon Suisse | accessdate = 2006-07-05}}</ref> Additionally, Le Corbusier's [[Sainte Marie de La Tourette]] priory in | The six storied Baden-Powell House is designed in the [[modern architecture|modern]] [[architectural style]], as pioneered by the Swiss architect [[Le Corbusier]] from the late 1920s onwards, and predominating in the 1950s. At Baden-Powell House, Tubbs made the first floor overhang the ground floor, a Le Corbusier architectural design choice to free the building from the ground, such as seen in his [[Pavillon Suisse]] at the [[Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris|Cité Internationale Universitaire]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.archivision.com/analog/screen/P/1A1-LC-PS.jpg | title = Images of the Pavillon Suisse | accessdate = 2006-07-05}}</ref> Additionally, Le Corbusier's [[Sainte Marie de La Tourette]] priory in Lyon shows two floors of monk's cells with small windows, [[cantilever]]ed over the more open floors below, another design choice used by Tubbs in the [[facade]] of Baden-Powell House.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/MLC127.html | title = La Tourette Monastery|accessdate = 2006-07-05 }}</ref> While Tubbs created Baden-Powell House in the modern architectural style of Le Corbusier, he used more architectural restraint in his own design choices. For example, he made the main visible building component brick rather than concrete. This heavier evolution of Le Corbusier's style was popular in England throughout the post-war years until replaced by the [[Brutalist]] style in the later 1960s.<ref name="cropplestone">{{cite book | last = Cropplestone |first = Trewin | year = 1963 | title = World Architecture | publisher = Hamlyn | pages = Pages 331-333, caption 1002 and onward to 341 }}</ref> | ||
Baden-Powell House was built to Tubbs' design by Harry Neal Ltd, for which they received the 1961 Gold Medal of the [[Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers]].<ref name="wood"/> At the opening, the house received the building design award for ‘The building of most merit in London.'<ref name="factsheet">{{cite web | title = Scoutbase Fact Sheet on Baden-Powell House | | Baden-Powell House was built to Tubbs' design by Harry Neal Ltd, for which they received the 1961 Gold Medal of the [[Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers]].<ref name="wood"/> At the opening, the house received the building design award for ‘The building of most merit in London.'<ref name="factsheet">{{cite web | title = Scoutbase Fact Sheet on Baden-Powell House | | ||