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Zimbabwe House at 429 Strand in central London is the Zimbabwean Embassy.
The building was built by architect Charles Holden in 1907-8 as the headquarters of the British Medical Association and featured a series of sculptures by Jacob Epstein representing the Ages of Man, his first major commission in London.
The nakedness of many of these male sculptures was initially shocking to Edwardian sensibilities and provoked considerable controversy at the time.
In the 1930's a gentleman pedestrian was struck on the head by a falling stone phallus from one of the statues, so the other statues were also rendered eunuch's to prevent similar mishaps.