Another Surprise - More Art Deco

I was photographing a concert in London (more of that later) and went a little early to visit a Gallery and have a wander about.

Found myself near Mornington Crescent and spied a lovely building in the distance, so hastily went towards it, not that is was going anywhere. Poor light for Architecture but took a few shots with the Sony RX100 II, my constant companion.

Inevitable Google search at home, I learnt more about the building..

"The Carreras Cigarette Factory is a large Art Deco building in Camden, London in the United Kingdom. It is noted as a striking example of early 20th Century Egyptian Revival architecture.
The building was erected in 1926-28 by the Carreras Tobacco Company owned by the Russian-Jewish inventor and philanthropist Bernhard Baron on the communal garden area of Mornington Crescent, to a design by architects M.E and O.H Collins and A.G Porri.
It is 550 feet (168 metres) long, and is mainly white, The building's distinctive Egyptian-style ornamentation originally included a solar disc to the Sun-god Ra, two gigantic effigies of black cats flanking the entrance and colourful painted details. When the factory was converted into offices in 1961 the Egyptian detailing was lost, but it was restored during a renovation in the late 1990s and replicas of the cats were placed outside the entrance."

Will definitely go back there.