Презентация, доклад 10 DOWNING STREET SPOTLIGHT 9

were created by Kent when he combined the house at the back with the Downing Street townhouses in 1735. It’s outside appearance is basically the same today as it was when he completed his work. An exception is the now famous front door entrance.

in the entrance hall with its distinctive black and white chequered marble floor.

Entrance hall

Room with its distinctive pair of double columns. Use the cursor to see who is who. In Kent's design for the enlarged Number 10, the Cabinet Room was a simple rectangular space with enormous windows. The resulting small spaceframed by the pillars, serves as an anteroom to the  larger area.

Cabinet

in 1796 by Taylor.. It name originates from two identical columns, with ionic pilasters. Above a fire-place the portrait of queen Elisabeth I hangs now.

Pillared Room

drawing rooms. It was used as the dining room when Sir Robert Walpole was Prime Minister. The name changes according to the colour it is painted. When Margaret Thatcher came to power it was the Blue Room; she had it re-decorated and renamed the Green Room. It is now painted terracotta.

Terracotta State Drawing Room

1940s, used by Prime Ministers and their wives for their private use. It was here that Edward Heath kept his grand piano. It is often used as the backdrop for television interviews and is in regular use as a meeting room for Downing Street staff. The room links through to the Terracotta Room next door. In the reconstruction during the late 1980s, Quinlan Terry used Corinthian columns and added ornate Baroque-style central ceiling mouldings and corner mouldings of the four national flowers of the United Kingdom: rose (England), thistle (Scotland), daffodil (Wales) and shamrock (Northern Ireland)

White State Drawing Room

cost of £2,000, the result is a spacious room with oak panelling and reeded mouldings. Accessed through the first floor, its vaulted, arched ceiling rises up through the next so that it actually occupies two floors.
The room is usually furnished with a table surrounded by 20 reproduction Adam style chairs originally made for the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. For larger gatherings, a horseshoe-shaped table is brought in that will accommodate up to 65 guests.  Above the fireplace, overlooking the room, is a massive portrait by John Shackleton of George II, the king who originally gave the building to the First Lord of the Treasury in 1732. Blair used this room for his monthly press conferences.

another part of the renovations begun in 1783, probably also under the direction of Robert Taylor. Seldom seen by anyone other than staff, the space is two storeys high with a huge arched window and vaulted ceiling. Traditionally, it has always had a chopping block work table in the centre

Dining or Breakfast Room

diplomats,members of cabinet of ministers.

galleries, for example from the National portrait gallery, Gallery of Tate, Museum of Victoria and Alberta and the National gallery.

The Palace of Whitehall by Hendrick Danckerts c. 1660–1679. Viewed from the west side of St. James's Park, the "House at the Back" is on the far right; the octagonal building next to it is the Cockpit.