Art Deco `Gem' Falls Victim to Pounds 400m Redevelopment

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ARCHITECTURAL conservationists are dismayed at the imminent loss of the Art Deco Guinness factory at Park Royal, west London, designed by Alexander Gibb and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, creator of the Bankside power station that is now the Tate Modern art gallery.

The factory is to be demol-ished to make way for a plant, offices, housing and an Underground station - another brick in the wall of Britain's architectural heritage being crushed by the weight of commercial imperative, opponents say.

Although the Guinness factory was a joint architectural project it was essentially Gibb who created the shape of the huge but decoratively restrained Art Deco environment for …