A business park opened by Margaret Thatcher that was meant to bring Hollywood glamour to the more mundane realities of office life on a plot of land handy for the M4, M5 and A38 has been given listed heritage status.
The units at Aztec West, designed by the architects CZWG, have forecourts that follow the turning circle of a car, the idea being that people can drive up to the building in the manner of a movie star in their limo, except the destination might be the head office of an insurance company rather than Chateau Marmont or a big meeting with a studio boss.
The other commercial listing is the McKay trading estate in Slough, a collection of warehouses and offices characterised by arches in the style of Le Corbusier, and the first independent commission for the leading British postmodern architect John Outram.
