This gallery was designed for Richard Green, one of the world’s leading fine art dealers, to display the gallery’s post 1900 modern works and is the first purpose built gallery in Bond Street for a century. The building replaces two unlisted buildings in a sensitive conservation area. The particular challenge was to design a building that respects its historic setting, but also retains a strong commercial identity of its own. It follows the typical Bond Street arrangement of a single-storey shop front, two principal floors and an attic and, as a result, fits comfortably into the street, incorporating the memory of the previous buildings. The new façade is in Portland stone with bronze-framed windows and doors to the ground floor. All elements of the shop front were carefully considered including signage and external lighting. A central element is a frieze by the neoclassical sculptor Alexander Stoddart. Based on the Odyssey, the sculpture is an allegory for the development of modern art from 1900 to the present day. Designed by George Saumarez Smith