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Images George Rex
Photography of the built environment
Thursday, 20 March 2025
69 West St / Farnham
Early-C19, grade 2 listed dwelling. Painted render over brick, 3 storey plus basement. Central front door with stone surround including pilasters. Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
68 West St / Farnham
Grade 2 listed "Christmas Cottage", thought to possibly be of timber-framed core. Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK.
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Moxy / Stratford
Suttonca Architects, 2017, for Marriott Hotels. The rooms are prefabricated of Cross Laminated Timber and the building has LEED ‘platinum‘ environmental performance rating. Stratford, London Borough of Newham.
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Monday, 17 March 2025
Green Pioneer / II
Fortescue Green Pioneer berthed in London and on a global tour of ports to encourage the early adoption of zero emission fuels. It is the first ammonia-fuelled vessel to be in the UK. Canary Wharf. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Sunday, 16 March 2025
South Dock / 2025
Vista west from Dollar Bay Point, including the cylindrical One Park Drive designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Canary Wharf, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Saturday, 15 March 2025
Pier Head Lock / Panorama
Panoramic view of the river Thames as it loops around the Greenwich peninsula. Viewed from the Isle of Dogs, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Friday, 14 March 2025
O2 / from Tower 7
The O2 Arena (originally called the Millennium Dome, by Richard Rogers Partnership, 1999) viewed from Pierhead Lock. Now with much development around it on the Greenwich peninsula.
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Thursday, 13 March 2025
Tower 7 / Pierhead Lock
Goddard Manton Architects, c.1999. Part of a large Moderne-style apartment complex. Remedial fire-compliant cladding by Noviun Architects. The building in the misty distance is the Greenwich ready-mixed concrete plant. Manchester Road, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Hawksmoor / Wood Wharf
Floating bar-restaurant at Wood Wharf, formerly called The Lowback. 1 Water Street, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Green Pioneer / Canary Wharf
Fortescue Green Pioneer berthed in London and on a global tour of ports to encourage the early adoption of zero emission fuels. It is the first ammonia-fuelled vessel to be in the UK. Canary Wharf, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Baltimore Tower / 2025
Architects: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, 2017. Residential tower of 45 storeys, with a twisting elliptical steel-and-glass envelope around a concrete cylindrical core. Crossharbour, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Monday, 10 March 2025
NT 2025 / V
National theatre by architect Sir Denys Lasdun, opened 1976. Grade II* listed theatre complex in the brutalist style. South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.
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Sunday, 9 March 2025
Columbia Point / Deal Porters
Architects: Colin Lucas, Philip Bottomley at the LCC/GLC, c.1964. One of two point blocks on the Canada Estate. The bronze and oak sculpture is 'The Deal Porters', now restored with participation by the original artists Philip Bews and Diane Gorvin. Canada Water, London Borough of Southwark.
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Danger / Deep Water
Detail of the red-painted bridge over Canada Water dock designed by Asif Khan, opened November 2024. The 170m-long boardwalk is constructed from sustainable timber. London Borough of Southwark.
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Red Bridge / Canada Water
Red-painted bridge over Canada Water dock designed by Asif Khan, opened November 2024. The 170m-long boardwalk is constructed from sustainable timber. London Borough of Southwark.
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Saturday, 8 March 2025
Prince's Tower / SE16
Troughton McAslan Architecture, 1990, a.k.a. Riverside Apartments. Revival of Deco Streamline Moderne at 97, Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark.
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Friday, 7 March 2025
Wapping / from King's Stairs
From across the Thames, a view of Wapping including the Thames River Police museum and pier, St John's Wharf residential conversion, the Captain Kidd public house and Phoenix Wharf. Seen from King's Stairs Gardens in Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark.
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Thursday, 6 March 2025
Tate Residences / Sussex Cricketer
ECE Architecture, 2022, for Roffey Homes and Sussex County Cricket Club. 37 apartments, offices to north. A new bar-restaurant on the ground floor has taken the name of the historic Sussex Cricketer pub which was demolished. Eaton Road, Hove, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Hove Town Hall / 2025
Architect: John Wells-Thorpe (1928–2019), opened 1974. In a late Brutalist style using ribbed concrete panels and glass curtain-walling. Still unlisted. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Victoria Court / BN3
Architects: Owen Luder Partnership (OLP), 1965. Modern-style apartment block comprising 30 flats over 11 floors. Unlisted. 16 Grand Avenue, Hove, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Monday, 3 March 2025
3 / King's Gardens
Builder J.T.Chapell, c.1890, render over brick with terracotta dressings. Looks a bit "Belle Époque" influenced to me. Tall chimney stacks to sides of roof with one of its dormers surrounded by a decorative gable. Stylish wrought-iron balustrade to first floor. Grade 2 listed with the group of houses surrounding. 3 King's Gardens, Hove, City of Brighton & Hove.
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Sunday, 2 March 2025
Hut 147 / Hove
Candy-striped doors decorating number 147, Hove Beach Huts, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Saturday, 1 March 2025
King Alfred / Dinosaur
Swimming pools designed by Tom Humble, Borough Surveyor of Hove, c.1938, in a brick modern style typical of lidos of that era. Unlisted, it now has an unbefitting extension to the south. Currently slated for redevelopment by 2028. In foreground, the 'Jurassic Beach' mini golf. Hove, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.
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Friday, 28 February 2025
2-6 / St Aubyns
Classical style, curved terrace of dwellings c.1860. 4 storeys and basement. Stucco on brick, shallow pitched roof concealed behind parapet. The group is Grade 2 listed, mostly number 4 St Aubyns seen here. Hove, City of Brighton & Hove.
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Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Nine Elms / 2025
The Nine Elms district seen from the Coaling Jetty, London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2025
'Local Vocals' / SW11
Artist: Jesse Wine (b.1983, England, now NYC), installed 2017. Orange-painted reclining figure making reference to Henry Moore's 'Reclining Figure: Angles'. Battersea Power Station, London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Monday, 24 February 2025
Churchill Gardens / 2025
Panorama of Churchill Gardens viewed from across the river Thames in Wandsworth. The residential estate was designed by Powell and Moya, built 1947-62. Much of the estate is Grade 2 listed, including the district heating accumulator tower, seen at the right.
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Sunday, 23 February 2025
Western Pumping Station / III
Completed 1875, built by William Webster who may have contributed to the design. Two-storey, mansard-roofed pumping house and square cross-section chimney, both of pale-yellow brick. House and chimney are Grade II listed.
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Saturday, 22 February 2025
Chelsea Bridge / 2025
Architects G.Topham Forrest et al of the LCC., 1937, Grade II listed in 2008. Self-anchored suspension bridge, here viewed from the London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Friday, 21 February 2025
Penge House / 2025
Architects: Howes & Jackman, c.1970, for Wandsworth London Borough Council, built by Bovis and direct municipal labour. A 17-storey block containing 75 dwellings, part of York Road, Stage II Phase 2. London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Thursday, 20 February 2025
Pennethorne House / 2025
Architects: Howes, Jackman & Partners. Part of the York Road Stage 1 development, built by Wandsworth’s Building Works Department 1967-70. Pending demolition. London Borough of Wandsworth.
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Wednesday, 19 February 2025
IFS Cloud / N Station
WilkinsonEyre Architects, 2012, for TfL. Showing the north station at Western Gateway, London Borough of Newham.
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