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The Westminster Theatre was a theatre in London, on Palace Street in Westminster.

The Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.

Portland House is a skyscraper in Westminster, London. It is 101 metres (331 ft) tall with 29 floors. The building was the central feature of the redevelopment of the six acres old Watney's Brewery site. The architects were Howard, Fairbairn & Partners, and the development took place from 1959 to 1963. Pevsner notes that the architectural form of Portland House was influenced by the Pirelli Tower (1955–58) in Milan by architect Gio Ponti. The development was known as Stag Place. Today the site is Cardinal Place. The building has two banks of lifts — the first serving the first up to the fifteenth floor, and the second the fifteenth floor upwards. Firms that have at one point occupied Portland House for office space include American Express, Crossrail, HomeAway UK, Owners Direct, Direct Ferries Orbus Software, Increase the Wedge, NetBooster, Somo Global, TradeDoubler, Wunder2, uSwitch, Upmystreet.com, Reef Television, Rentokil Initial, AkzoNobel, Monica Vinader and IWG. The building also once contained the head offices of British United Airways.The building is a five-minute walk from London Victoria station (rail and tube) and a ten-minute walk from Victoria Coach Station. The surrounding area was redeveloped between 2003 and 2005, with a new shopping and refreshments area called Cardinal Place. The building also has a gym in the basement.The building is part of the Cardinal Place Estate, which includes the shopping centre and development around the building. Retail establishments such as Marks & Spencer, Boots, Thorntons, Zara, Ha Ha Bar and Zizzi have taken retail space in the complex. The ground floor has a portico arrangement of pillars which reflect the octagonal cross-section of the building. The Portland House is substantially similar in design to the MetLife Building in New York City. The two buildings were under construction at the same time. As of June 2021, the building is entirely vacant, with the ground floor behind hoardings, pending renovation by Land Securities.

The Embassy of Peru in London is the diplomatic mission of Peru in the United Kingdom. The Embassy is located in 15 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6LB.The Residence of the Ambassador is located in 34 Porchester Terrace, near Kensington Palace. The Italianate Victorian house was once the residence of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, who rented the property to he Peruvian Government starting in 1948. Peru also maintains a Defence Attaché's Office.

The High Commission of Eswatini in London is the diplomatic mission of Eswatini in the United Kingdom.The High Commission is housed in a building designed by Reginald Blomfield in the late 19th century and features sculpture-work by Henry Pegram.A regular protest has been held since 2010 each Saturday by those opposed to the rule of King Mswati III.

The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is the unit of the British government with responsibility for social equality. The office has lead responsibility for gender equality within the UK government, together with a responsibility to provide advice on all other forms of equality (including age, race, sexual orientation and disability) to other UK government departments. The unit is based at the Cabinet Office. Prior to April 2019, the GEO was led concurrently by Cabinet Secretaries at the Home Office, DFID and DfE. The day-to-day responsibility for policy on these issues was not transferred to GEO when it was created. The Equalities Office currently leads the Discrimination Law Review, which developed the Equality Act 2010 that replaced previous anti-discrimination legislation. The current minister responsible for GEO is Kemi Badenoch, who also serves as Secretary of State for International Trade in the Rishi Sunak government.

Verde is an office building at 10 Bressenden Place, formerly known as Eland House, in Westminster, London. It was originally designed by EPR Architects and built by Mowlem for Landsec, and although finally completed in 1998, staff of the former Department of the Environment had moved in during late 1995/early 1996. In 2014, the building was acquired by Tishman Speyer and redeveloped according to a design created by Aukett Swanke. It was then renamed Verde. The redeveloped building encompasses 282,000 square feet of office space across 10 floors, and includes a number of roof gardens.

Cardinal Place is a retail and office development in London, near Victoria Station and opposite Westminster Cathedral. The site consists of three buildings covering over a million square feet on Victoria Street next door to Portland House, and was designed by EPR Architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine. The topping out ceremony was held in December 2004, and performed by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Lord McAlpine, and Ian J. Henderson, outgoing chief executive of the site's developers Land Securities. The £200m development was built directly over the District & Circle line Underground tunnels which actually pass through the basement. The buildings rest on rubber shock absorbers to prevent vibrations from the passing trains. The project includes 550,000 square feet (51,000 m2) of office space and 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of retail. Tenants include Experian.

Tart Hall or Tart House was a small villa in the City of Westminster, London in the 17th century into the early 18th century. The building stood on the west side of James Street, now Buckingham Gate, immediately to the south of Buckingham House, now Buckingham Palace, at the west end of St James's Park. The origin of its name is not clear. The site was bought by Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel in 1633, although it is likely it was being leased before then. She had the house built, replacing or enlarging an existing building. The hall was sold in 1742 and demolished.

1 Palace Street is a 302,377 sq ft (28,091.7 m2) development on Palace Street in Victoria, London, opposite Buckingham Palace. Abu Dhabi Financial Group (ADFG) bought the site for £310 million in 2013, and it is being developed by Northacre, which is 70% owned by ADFG. When completed in 2018, it will comprise 72 apartments and incorporate an existing Grade II listed building.The building facing Buckingham Gate, of which the 1861 facade will be retained was built as the Palace Hotel in the nineteenth century, before becoming offices, as Nobel House. It will be the only residential building to directly overlook the gardens of Buckingham Palace.The architects are Squire & Partners, and the development will "reflect five architectural styles: 1860s Italianate Renaissance, 1880s French Renaissance, 1880s French Beaux Arts, 1890s Queen Anne, and contemporary".In November 2015, it was reported by The Guardian that one of the apartments had been pre-sold for £20 million to an unknown buyer.

The Queen's Gallery is the main public art gallery of Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection (the bulk of which works have since its opening been regularly displayed, so held in trust for the nation, rather than kept privately) on a rotating basis. It has its own access façade and typically displays about 450 works, always including mainly paintings and drawings.

Westminster City School is a state-funded secondary academy for boys, with a mixed sixth form, in Westminster, London. The school educates over 800 students, with links to more than 100 different cultures, in a central London location. The school offers places at Year 7 entry, each year, to boys of Christian faith, other world faiths, and those of no faith. The current headteacher is Peter Broughton, while the current deputy headteachers are Jen Lockyer and Simon Brown.The school became an academy in 2012. In February 2017, Ofsted rated it "good".