Not strictly an eighties building, built as it was in 1995, but I feel it embodies the spirit of what I think architecture was about in the eighties. Designed by Piers Gough.
China Wharf
Designed and built 1986-1988, by the architecture firm CZWG, the G of that being the aforementioned Piers Gough.
Homebase Warwick Avenue
Designed and built in 1988 by Ian Pollard architects.
Marco Polo House
One of the betes noire of eighties architecture, designed and built in 1987, again by Ian Pollard architects. Apparently about to be pulled down and redeveloped. It may be ugly, but at least it says something, unlike most new buildings these days....even if what it is saying is ugly.
Number One Poultry
The other famously ugly building of the eighties. Although this one was finished in 1997, it was designed in the eighties by James Stirling.
The Ark
I used to live in Fulham and could see the Ark from my roof terrace. Intrigued by it, I went to take a look at it close up, but it's difficult to get to. It's visible over rooftops and from strange angles, but like a chimera, when you thought you were getting close to it, you weren't. It was hidden by the Westway flyover and other buildings around it, so you only ever saw it reasonably well from a distance. Designed and built 1989 - 1992 by Ralph Erskine.
Janet Street Porters House
Another Piers Gough design, this time from 1987.
Camden Sainsburys
This is one of my favourite buildings in London, especially the canalside houses that was part of the development. Nicholas Grimshaw, 1988-1989.
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