The west side of the square is dominated by the listed church of Christ the King and next to it the home of Dr Williams's Library.
The Campaign for Science and Engineering and UCL Urban Laboratory resides in Gordon House, at the square's north-west corner.
The Warburg Institute (part of the School of Advanced Study) is located on the south-west corner of the square, across Tavistock Place.
[1] The economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) lived at 46 Gordon Square,[3] marked by a blue plaque.
Before Keynes moved in, the same house was occupied by a young Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and her siblings (including the noted painter and interior designer Vanessa Bell) [4] and frequented by other members of the Bloomsbury Group.