Brook House
The existing building was demolished to make way for a new office block and high specification private accommodation of some eight floors. The construction is a steel and concrete frame finished with stone cladding of various types, stainless steel and brickwork. The Park Lane elevation consists of several square columns in Portland stone rising to the first floor, a 1metre high fascia forms the heads linking the columns together, the plinth to the columns and stall risers between are Scottish black granite. The balconies to this elevation are paved in Portland stone and edged with a weathered border.
Woods Mews and Upper Brook street elevations have also been constructed with Portland columns and black Granite plinths, the fascia panels linking the columns are of Purbeck Grub with a honed Finnish. The remainder of these two elevations has also been built with Portland stone cladding, forming large panels between floor levels with stainless steel feature surrounds.
Window balconies to Woods Mews and Upper Brook Street have been finished in polished black Granite. The cornice projection at the seventh floor is constructed of stainless steel trays inset with polished Penthelikan marble panels from Italy, the sun screen to the eighth floor are marble panels set vertical within a steel frame and pierced to give a lattice effect.
Portland stone was used for the balcony paving around the eighth floor and to form circular columns between the seventh and eighth floor. The courtyard roadway was laid with Portuguese Granite sets coursed in two directions with falls, paving in this area was also Portuguese Granite with large sweeping kerbstones all with a needle point Finnish .The ashlar walls are Portland stone, again with a polished black Granite plinth.
Internal stonework to the ground floor is a reflection of the external columns of Portland and Granite, window cills to the internal varied between black Granite and honed Purbeck. | 
WHITFIELD LOCKWOOD ARCHITECTS - "On behalf of my client. I would like to thank you for your kind hospitality at the Stone Awards ceremony on Wednesday. Tusmore was a worthy winner of the award and the true credit for this achievement goes to Holloway White Allom and APS for producing work of such high quality.
