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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
Five hundred and fifty feet of Egyptian temple on Hampstead Road, with two black cats at the door.
IndustrialArt Deco
The Carreras Tobacco Company built the Arcadia Works between 1926 and 1928, four years after Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun's tomb and the whole of Europe went Egyptian. M. E. and O. H. Collins, with A. G. Porri, gave it a colonnade of papyrus capitals, a solar disc to Ra over the entrance and two enormous bronze cats flanking the door - the company's trademark was a black cat. A 1961 conversion to offices stripped every bit of it off. The restoration of the late 1990s put the colour, the disc and replica cats back, so what stands on Hampstead Road now is a 1920s Egyptian fantasy rebuilt from photographs.
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