London Past Papers Architecture

Question 1

Name the architect of the Royal
Hospital Chelsea.

Question 2

What is the name given to the
angular City office building at 52
Lime Street, completed in 2018?

Question 3

What will flow through the
Thames Tideway Tunnel when it
is completed in 2023/24?

Question 4

Name the underground line with
stations designed by different 20th
century architects.

Question 5

Name the new office building in
the City which won the Sterling
Prize for architecture in 2018.

Question 6

In which year was the
construction of the Thames Flood
Barrier completed?

Question 7

Name ONE office building in the
City with a roof garden open to
the public, which you could
recommend to a visitor.

Question 8

How many institutions and
colleges make up the University
of London?

Question 9

Name ONE “Brutalist” style
building in London.

Question 10

Name the former monastery near
Smithfield, which today is an alms
house.

Question 11

What did Harry Beck design in
the early 20th century?

Question 12

Which central London railway
station supplies half the electricity
it needs from solar panels?

Question 13

Name the tunnelling device
patented by Marc Brunel.

Question 14

From which TWO countries were
the Jews escaping, who established
the Bevis Marks Synagogue?

Answer 14

(i)
(ii)

Question 15

Name the architect who designed
the Crystal Palace for the Great
Exhibition in 1851.

Question 16

Name the TWO architects who
converted the Bankside power
station into Tate Modern.
(Surnames only)

Answer 16

(i)
(ii)

Question 17

Name the TWO architects who
designed the Monument.

Answer 17

(i)
(ii)

Question 18

Which architectural style is the
South Bank Centre?

Question 19

Who designed the New
Routemaster bus in 2010?

Question 20

Name the architect who designed
what is now Regent Street in the
early 1800s, connecting Carlton
House with Regent’s Park.

Question 21

Name the architect of the former New Scotland Yard located on Victoria Embankment, now used as parliamentary offices.

Question 22

Give the name of the architect who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition in 1851.

Question 23

Name the designer of the iconic telephone box in the 1930s?

Question 24

Which architectural company is responsible for the Bevis Marks development?

Question 25

Name the architect of the luxury
development One Hyde Park.

Question 26

Who were the inventors/designers of the London Eye?

Question 27

Name the free museum in
Lincoln’s Inn Fields based in the
house of a distinguished 19th
century architect.

Question 28

In 1924, who won a competition
to design the classic London
telephone box?

Question 29

Which architect designed the principal façade of Buckingham
Palace?

Question 30

Name the architect credited with the development of Covent Garden for
the 4th Earl of Bedford in 1630.

Question 31

Name the architect who designed
the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park.

Question 32

Who designed the Crystal Palace,
which housed the Great Exhibition
of 1851?

Question 33

Name the civil engineer who designed the Thames Embankment in the 19th century.

Question 34

Name the architect who rebuilt the Houses of Parliament following the fire of 1834.

Question 35

Name the architect who designed
the red telephone box.

Question 36

The Actors’ Church was designed
by Inigo Jones in 1631. Where is
it?

Question 37

Which architect designed
Covent Garden?

Answer 37

Inigo Jones

Owned by Westminster Abbey, the land where the Market Building and the Piazza now stand was referred to as ‘the garden of the Abbey and Convent’, hence its name.
In 1540, the land was granted to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, whose descendant was to transform it into an innovative new London neighbourhood a century later.
With the support of King Charles I, the 5th Earl of Bedford set about converting his estate into the first ever experiment in urban planning in London. In 1630, he commissioned Inigo Jones, the most important architect of the day, to create the first public square in the country at Covent Garden.