Admiralty arch is an imposing building with five through-passages in the beginning, the Mall, near Charing Cross and Trafalgar square. Arch set at the beginning of the XX century by king Edward VII in memory of his great mother, Queen Victoria. The place for the building of the monument was well chosen: it closes the perspective from Buckingham Palace and Victoria memorial in Trafalgar square.

The project facility was designed in 1910 by architect sir Aston Webb. Space to put the arch separately from other buildings, was not here, and Webb combined it with the Old Admiralty building, which is also called simply "Annex". It appeared in the late nineteenth century, when Britain was the leader of the naval arms race and the Admiralty needed to be expanded. Because of this close neighborhood arch got its name, although in fact she never had anything to do with the fleet. However, it is decorated with sculptural groups Navigation and Artillery, the works of Thomas Brock. To the complex of the arch is also standing by her side of Trafalgar square, the monument to captain James cook.

The arch was inaugurated in 1912, king Edward VII to this day have not survived. The majestic building immediately became the ceremonial gateway to London, an important part of the ceremonial of the Royal route leading to Buckingham Palace. Of the five cross-cutting drives, framed Portland stone, designed for two large cars, and two smaller ones for pedestrians. The average closed gilded wrought iron gates and opened only for the Royal procession.

Internal living area of this rather large building was used differently: as government offices, social housing. Gradually arch downfall. However recently it was leased for 99 years to the Spanish investor who plans to place here a beautiful hotel.

In one of the "car" drives from the wall at a height of two meters high stone stands the human nose. There are several legends: whether it is the nose of Napoleon, is enshrined here in mockery of the small size of the Emperor, whether a spare nose for the statue of Nelson. In fact, the nose came here in the late XX century, it has managed to quietly stick artist Rick Buckley, protesting thus against the practice of surveillance of citizens.