The Queen's House at Greenwich was designed by Inigo Jones, who had been a designer of stage sets for King James I. -Inigo's revolutionary mini palace would be Britain's first classical building ...

The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The ...

A View of Greenwich and the Queen's House from the ... It's one of a handful of Inigo Jones buildings left in London Inigo Jones was a prolific architect, but a lot of what he created or modified ...

In June 1617, a correspondent wrote to Sir Dudley Carleton, the diplomat and Secretary of State, saying: ‘The Queen is building somewhat at Greenwich wch must be finished this sommer, yt is saide to ...

Royal connections with Greenwich can be traced back to the ... was originally built in the early 1600s by Inigo Jones for the Queen to King James I - Anne of Denmark. It was originally known ...

The Queen's House in Greenwich has opened, following 14 months of closure for head-to-toe renovation. One of the biggest changes to Inigo Jones's palladian villa is a new ceiling artwork by the ...

INIGO Jones was born on July 15 ... such as the Queen’s House at Greenwich, the Banqueting House at Whitehall, Whitehall Palace and Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, all of which owe something ...

From the 17th century grandeur of Sir Christopher Wren and Inigo Jones, to the post-war masterpieces of Ernő Goldfinger and Oscar Niemeyer, the Royal Institute of British Architects has launched ...