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Marco Polo House

Buildings and structures completed in 1987Buildings and structures demolished in 2014Buildings and structures in the London Borough of WandsworthEngvarB from January 2014Office buildings in London
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Marco Polo House (brighter cropped version)
Marco Polo House (brighter cropped version)

Marco Polo House (originally stylised as "Marcopolo") was a large marble-effect, glass-clad office building and TV studio at 346 Queenstown Road, facing Battersea Park in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built in 1987–1988 and completed in 1989 by Peter Argyrou Associates, to a design by postmodernist architect and developer Ian Pollard through his property development company, Flaxyard, and initially used by British Satellite Broadcasting. The building was demolished in 2014.

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Sopwith Way, London

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