Early Work on Cunard Building 1911

Willink and Thicknesse were appointed Architects in 1911 for the Cunard Building with Mewes and Davies, Consultants to Cunard, determined that the design should be inspired from the Farnese Palace in Rome designed by Antonio da Sangallo and completed by Michelangelo in 1544. The brief required eleven acres of floor space within a building that symbolized the gateway to the New World.

The image shows the early work on the site in May 1913.