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building and Barry
The subsequent competition for the reconstruction of the Palace was won by architect Charles Barry and his design for a building in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is on the left, the red house is No. 12, the dark houses are No. 11 and No. 10 ( nearer, and partially obscured ), and the building on the right is the Charles Barry | Barry wing of Cabinet Office, which has its main frontage to Whitehall.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a popular fictional British comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site.
The original building includes the Great Room, which features a magnificent sequence of paintings by Irish artist James Barry titled The progress of human knowledge and culture.
Here he was hemmed in entirely by the surviving building, but was entirely of the view that the new chamber should be congruent with the old as anything else would clash with the Gothic style of Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin.
In 1844, having won the architectural competition to design the new Palace of Westminster, Barry asked Pugin to supply detailed designs for the interior of the new building, including stained glass, metalwork, wood carving, upholstery, furniture and a royal throne.
In her biography, Hill quotes Pugin as writing of what is probably his best known building: " I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful & I am the whole machinery of the clock.
In 1867, after the deaths of both Pugin and Barry, Pugin's son Edward published a pamphlet, Who Was the Art Architect of the Houses of Parliament, a statement of facts, in which he asserted that his father was the " true " architect of the building, and not Barry.
Probably thanks to his fiancée's friendship with John Soane, Barry was recommended to the Church Commissioners, and was able to obtain his first major commissions building churches for them.
The next church he designed was St Andrew's Hove, East Sussex, in Waterloo Street, Brunswick, ( 1827 – 28 ); the plan of the building is in line with Georgian architecture, though stylistically the Italianate style was used, the only classical church Barry designed that was actually built.
His first major civil commission came when he won a competition to design the new Royal Manchester Institution ( 1824 – 35 ) for the promotion of Literature, Science & Arts ( now part of the Manchester Art Gallery ), in Greek revival style, the only public building by Barry in that style.
He designed the Gothic King Edward's School, New Street, Birmingham ( 1833 – 37 ), demolished 1936, it was during the erection of the school that Barry first met Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, he helped Barry design the interiors of the building.
Highclere Castle, Hampshire, ( c. 1842-50 ) with its large tower was remodelled in Elizabethan style for the Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, externally the building was completely altered, the plain Georgian building virtually rebuilt, although little of the interior is by Barry, his patron dying in 1849, and Thomas Allom completed it in 1861.
The last major commission of Barry's was Halifax Town Hall ( 1859 – 62 ), in a North Italian Cinquecento style, and a grand tower with spire, the interior includes a central hall similar to that at Bridgewater House, the building was completed after Barry's death by his son Edward Middleton Barry.
The design had to incorporate those parts of the building that escaped destruction, most notably Westminster Hall, the adjoining double storey cloisters of St Stephen's court and the crypt of St Stephen's Chapel, Barry's design was parallel to the River Thames, but the surviving buildings are at a slight angle to the river, thus Barry had to incorporate this awkward difference in axis into the design.
Reid, who Barry described as '.. not profess to be thoroughly acquainted with the practical details of building and machinery ' would make increasing demands that affected the building's design, leading to delays in construction, and by 1845 Barry refused to communicate with Reid except in writing.
Mr Justice Barry virtually singlehandedly planned the Melbourne Public Library building and its contents.
The University of Melbourne of which he was the first chancellor has a Redmond Barry building named for him.

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