The design problem of a Helicopter Station in the Central London area was set to thirty students in their final year at the Department of Architecture, University College, London, in the Lent Term of the session 1955-56 The architectural problem posed by the provision of the very large area of landing space required under present operational conditions, with its attendant problems of the ground and air approaches and the use of the covered space provided by the flight platform, was one well worthy of study The design of such a massive building as this entails, to fit comfortably in the relatively small scale of present day London, poses a considerable architectural problem, to which as yet no entirely satisfactory solutions have been offered