Viacom HQ / Camden Town

Architects: Jacobs Webber, 2013. Showing the Hawley Crescent facade consisting of expanded aluminium veil and projecting brightly-coloured fins. London Borough of Camden. 

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EAV detail

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Orinoco / Granary Square

Orinoco ice-cream boat, currently moored on the Regent's Canal at Granary Square. London Borough of Camden. 

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Gasholder / No. 8

Restoration: Bell Phillips Architects, 2012-2015. The gasholder was originally constructed in the 1850s and has been dismantled and refurbished in Yorkshire, including removal of 28 layers of paint. Now re-erected, the architects have just received planning consent to create a new public park that will integrate the old Grade II listed structure, given a 35m diameter circular stainless steel canopy in mirror finish. London Borough of Camden.

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PAHO / WHO building, #2

The outstanding Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization building, designed by Roman Fresnedo Siri (1903-1975), completed 1965. At 525 23rd St. NW Washington, DC.

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Dupont Circle Station / platform

Metrorail station designed by Harry Weese, c.1977.  Dupont Circle, Washington D.C.

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'Animal Park' / Mosaics

Sample of numerous mosaics displayed in Thornhill Bridge Community Gardens East, by the Regent's Canal. They were made by Monica Shanta Brown with Year 4 and 5 pupils at Copenhagen Primary School, 2006. London Borough of Islington. 

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The Viewpoint / Regent's Canal

Viewing platform designed by a young team of Finnish architects, commissioned by the Finnish Institute in London and the Architecture Foundation. Made with Corten walls internally lined with timber, along with a non-slip concrete base. London Borough of Camden.

Architects: Erkko Aarti, Arto Ollila and Mikki Ristola.

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Floor finish

This is stamped concrete according to the project description. Anyway you can see the "animal track" decorative finish.

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'Chromolocomotion' / St Pancras Station

Coloured perspex installation by artist David Batchelor (b.1955), hanging from the vast roof of the St Pancras International train shed. London Borough of Camden.

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Different view including the Betjeman statue.
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St Pancras Station / Rib Vault

Architect: George Gilbert Scott in Victorian Gothic style using red brick with Ancaster stone dressings and cast iron. Looking up at the vault of one of the entrances to the station. An octagonal lantern hangs from the centre. c.1870, Grade I listed. London Borough of Camden.

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Alternative view

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Ice Wharf / King's Cross

Architect: Tchaik Chassay, 1998. Apartments overlooking Regent's Canal and Battle Bridge Basin, steel framed with concrete floors sitting on deep bored piles. London Borough of Camden.

The development's name derives from a nearby Victorian ice well. A Mr Carlo Gatti had the huge well constructed in 1857 to store tons of ice imported from Norway and further wells were subsequently built around London. The ice enabled ice-cream to be brought to Londoners for the first time. You can still view the original ice well at the London Canal Museum which is just south of these apartments.

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5 Pancras Square / Entrance

Architects: Bennetts Associates, 2014, east entrance to new HQ of Camden Council. BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ sustainability rating. London Borough of Camden. 

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5 Pancras Square / artwork

Architects: Bennetts Associates, 2014, new HQ of Camden Council. The Council's motto "Not For Self But For All", made into an artwork by Mark Titchner, is said to have cost GBP100,000. The words were fine sentiments a century ago, but reading rather ironically to most people today. London Borough of Camden.

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Seahorse / Regent's Canal

Houseboat 'Seahorse' moored alongside the Camley Street Natural Park on the Regent's Canal. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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Sshhhhhh! / King's Cross

Poem by Julia Donaldson MBE, illustration by Clare Melinsky. Part of a poetry trail to celebrate the annually-awarded CLPE Children’s Poetry Prize. This nicely illustrated one under a bridge spanning the Regent's Canal near Granary Square. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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Lightwall / King's Cross

Attractive 90m pedestrian tunnel between the King's Cross/St Pancras underground station and an exit at One Pancras Square. Architects: Allies & Morrison, LED lightwall concept by Speirs & Major with design and implementation by The Light Lab. London Borough of Camden.

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Escalator Hall  / One Pancras Square

David Chipperfield Architects, 2014. Escalators at end of the lightwall tunnel to NE corner of One Pancras Square. London Borough of Camden. 

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St Pancras Gardens / Memorial Sundial

Designed by George Highton of Brixton for Baroness Burdett-Coutts, unveiled 1879. In the Victorian Gothic style, made of Portland stone, marble, granite and red Mansfield stone. Grade II listed [source: memorial plaque]. In St Pancras Old Church Gardens, London Borough of Camden. 

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Water Point / St Pancras

Architects: probably by the office of Sir George Gilbert Scott, c.1870. Iron water tank within red-brick structure originally to provide water for steam locomotives [source: English Heritage]. Victorian Gothic style similar to the St Pancras terminus. Grade II listed. London Borough of Camden.

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South-east tower of the original St Pancras station by George Gilbert Scott, completed 1876.

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St Pancras International / Station

Architects: Rail Link Engineering led by Alistair Lansley, Chapman Taylor, Foster & Partners, c.2007. Image shows the east entrance from Pancras Road. London Borough of Camden.

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Victoria Cottages / Hove

Victoria Cottages is a twitten running from Kingsway to King's Esplanade in Hove. The terraced cottages are thought to have been built c.1840 and are in the Cliftonville Conservation Area. City of Brighton & Hove. 

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Medina House / Hove

Architect: P. B. Chambers, built in 1893-4 for the Hove Bath and Laundry Company. Originally a ladies slipper baths and changing rooms. Described in the local list as a "Strange and whimsical building, render over original brick facade, with a heavily decorated Dutch gable". King's Esplanade, City of Brighton & Hove. 

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Graffito on Medina House at the period when it was occupied by squatters. Currently the building is unoccupied.

Courtenay House / Hove

South aspect of the west part of Courtenay Terrace, built c.1840 and Grade II listed. Stucco over brick, with first-floor hooded canopy on cast-iron columns. Four storey plus attic additions, now divided into flats. Although built at the start of the Victorian era, the style would be described as Regency. City of Brighton & Hove.

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King Alfred / south extension

Architects: Scott Brownrigg & Turner, 1983. Seaward extension to Hove's leisure centre accommodating swimming pools, solarium and creche. City of Brighton & Hove.

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St Aubyn's Mansions / Hove

Architects: Lainson & Sons, c.1899, in a Renaissance Revival style. The blue plaques record two past residents:

Dame Clara Butt (1872-1936), contralto recitalist and concert singer.

Vesta Tilley (later Lady de Frece 1864-1952), music hall artiste renowned as a male impersonator. "She first donned boy's clothes in 1870".

St Aubyn's Mansions is a locally listed building. King's Esplanade, City of Brighton & Hove.

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Street Art / Live Music

Grand Union Towpath by The Constitution public house, aka The Con. London Borough of Camden.

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King's Cross station / restored

Architect: Lewis Cubitt, 1852. A major redevelopment of this railway station has fully revealed the original façade by creating an open plaza to the south.  A new concourse is now to the west. The station is a Grade I listed structure. London Borough of Camden.

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New west passenger concourse

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Regent's Canal / at Camley Street Natural Park

London Borough of Camden.

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St Pancras Lock No 4 / Regent's Canal

With the lock-keeper's cottage and in distance the new office blocks of the Pancras Square development. London Borough of Camden.

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One Pancras Square / from NE

David Chipperfield Architects, 2013. RIBA Regional and National awards. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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One Pancras Square / columns

Each column comprises a black-painted iron cylinder surrounding a concrete post. The iron was cast at Hargreaves Foundary in Halifax using recycled material. There are 396 columns in all.  David Chipperfield Architects, 2013. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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One Pancras Square / from SE

David Chipperfield Architects, 2013. RIBA Regional and National awards. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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One Pancras Square / East Entrance

David Chipperfield Architects, 2013. East entrance via double-height colonnade. The columns are clad in cast-iron bearing a woven surface finish. RIBA Regional and National awards. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden. 

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Fish & Coal Offices / King's Cross

Architect: Lewis Cubitt (1799-1883). Built in 1851-1860s to accommodate clerks monitoring freight through the goods yards. To be restored as offices and studios with restaurants on ground floor. [Source: KX News]. London Borough of Camden. 

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Dupont Circle / station

Metro station designed by Harry Weese, c.1977. Stations are distinctive by their use of the repetitive exposed concrete paneling, up-lighting, and restricted advertising. Plus, there is no eating or drinking allowed anywhere on the system, so it's clean!  Dupont Circle, Washington D.C.

Dupont Circle / escalator

Escalators at Dupont Circle Metro Station. Designed by Harry Weese, c.1977. Stations are distinctive by their use of exposed concrete panelling, up-lighting, and minimal advertising. Surprisingly, some escalators exit straight out onto the sidewalk without any shelter, exposed to the elements: leaves, rain, snow etc! Dupont Circle, Washington D.C.

The Filling Station / King's Cross

Diner-style eatery converted from a derelict petrol station 2012. Architects: Carmody Groarke, shortlisted for the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize, 2013. What looks like metal cylinders is in fact fibreglass. Regent's Canal, Goods Way, London Borough of Camden. 

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2 Pancras Sq / 6 Pancras Sq

Left is Two Pancras Square office block, 2014, by Allies and Morrison architects. Right is Six Pancras Square office block, 2014, by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. St Pancras, London Borough of Camden. 

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Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition / Pommactornet

Lantern slide from my collection showing a scene from the 1923 Jubileumsutställningen, including the Pommac (berry and fruit juice drink) pavilion with its exuberant spire and segment windows. Gothenburg, Sweden.