5 Cheapside / The Sugar Building

Original architect: John Wells-Thorpe, c.1968. Octagonal office block cantilevered over ground floor retail. Acquired 2012 by Amsprop Estates — Lord Sugar's property investment company — and recently refurbished to a design by Rolfe Judd, including new polished limestone façade and winter garden terrace on the top floor providing views of St Paul's. City of London.

Untitled / by Mr Cenz

Untitled street art in Star Yard, near Brick Lane, by Mr Cenz. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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St Margaret Lothbury / EC2

Rebuilt after the Great Fire to an English Baroque design by the office of Sir Christopher Wren, c.1690. Portland stone. The lead-clad dome and spire attributed to Robert Hooke. Grade I listed. City of London.

4 Princelet Street / E1

Early C18 merchant's house, Grade II listed. Interior is said to be conserved in its original condition and can be hired for location work. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

"Don't Post Bills" / by Jay Kaes

Street art mural just off Brick Lane, by Jay Kaes. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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30 Old Bailey / facades

Design architects: Sauerbruch Hutton, Masterplan: Fletcher Priest, 2015. New mixed-use development with incongruous frontages for the Old Bailey district. City of London.

Amen Lodge / EC4

Architect: Norman Bailey & Partners, 1961. Looking up at the south elevation from Amen Corner. Warwick Lane, City of London.

St Mary Abchurch / steeple

Designed by the office of Sir Christopher Wren, 1687, Grade I listed. Showing the brick tower with Portland stone dressings, topped by lead-clad dome, lantern and spire. One of the least altered of Wren churches. Abchurch Lane, City of London.

1 Poultry / Bucklersbury Passage (2 images)

Architect: Sir James Stirling (1926-92) in the Post-Modern style, 1998, a rather late addition to the Po-Mo canon. This is a view upwards from a pedestrian passage through the building. City of London.

Sign of the Grasshopper / 1563

One of the oldest shop signs of Lombard Street although this is a C20 replica. The grasshopper was part of the family crest of Thomas Gresham (1519-1579), a Tudor financier, who once had premises here. City of London.

St Paul's / from Queen's Head Passage

The 111m dome of St Paul's Cathedral, architect Christopher Wren, 1708, glimpsed from the narrow Queen's Head Passage, City of London.

5 Ave Maria Lane / EC4

A surviving part of the modernist post-WW2 reconstruction around St Paul's Cathedral c.1959. Where Ave Maria Lane meets Amen Corner.  City of London.

Abchurch Yard / signs old and new

Street signs on the wall of St Mary Abchurch, City of London.

Juxon House / Angel Head

Sculptor: Emily Young FRBS (b.1951), one of a group of five by the artist placed on granite columns outside Juxon House, c.2003. St Paul's Churchyard, City of London. 

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Old Bailey / Dome & looking up (2 pics)

Dome of the Central Criminal Court by architect E. W. Mountford, in an Edwardian Baroque style, 1907. The 67ft high dome is topped with a 12ft "lady of justice" gilded statue. City of London. 

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West Bay / Bridport

The beach and East Cliff at West Bay, near Bridport, Dorset. 

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Hotel Rex / Weymouth

Built c.1795 as a house for the Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and now a hotel. Three storeys plus attic and basement with smooth ashlar Portland stone cladding to front. Full-width balcony to first floor with wrought-iron balustrade. Grade II listed. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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28-29 East St / Weymouth

At corner of East Street and Governors Lane, mid C19, Grade II listed. Shop-front accessible through separate corner entrance, with arched sash windows above. Cast-iron window guards fitted to the East St.-facing windows. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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The Royal Oak / Custom House Quay

Early C19 public house, listed Grade II as an "externally complete example of a characteristically Late Georgian type of public house" Also visible is the landmark clock-tower and cupola of St Mary's church. Weymouth, Dorset.

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Maiden Street Methodist Church / remains

Detail of Maiden Street Methodist Church by architects Foster and Wood in a Lombardic Romanesque Revival style, 1866, gutted by fire 2002. Showing the 4-bay arcade on the front elevation. Grade II* listed and still interesting in its current state as a shell supported by interior scaffolding. Weymouth, Dorset.

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MV Freedom / Weymouth

Motor vessel owned by a charity that provides people with disabilities the opportunity of a trip to sea, with visits to the Jurassic coast. The boat can carry up to twelve passengers including six wheelchair users. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Jigsaw Shop / Weymouth

Workshop of a business making bespoke hand-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles and similar products. Near Brewers Quay, Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset.

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Custom House Quay / from Cove Passage

Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Seagull Cafe / Weymouth

"Weymouth's Oldest Fish & Chip Shop" :) 10 Trinity Street, Weymouth, Dorset.

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The Prince of Wales / Weymouth

Public House comprising an early C19 single-bay house joined to a late C19 corner building. Interesting curved panel front doors with slim Doric columns each side. Two oriel windows on the Park Road elevation. Grade II listed in 1974 and for sale at time of photograph. 47-49 Park Street, Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Custom House Quay / Weymouth

Houses 15 and 16, on the left, are Georgian and Grade II listed. They are of two storeys with mansard attics; bay-windows have been added to the first floor. These indicate the scale of earlier buildings on the quayside. During the early Victorian era there was a revival of the harbour district with much residential and commercial development. Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Hope Congregational Chapel / Weymouth

Showing a lower detail of exterior façade, designed in a neo-classical style using cream stone ashlar on a limestone plinth. Panel inscription reads: "ERECTED 1822 RE-ERECTED 1862". Listed Grade II. Trinity Street, Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Newton's Cove / wall and shore (2 pics)

Landscape architects: Enplan. Portland stone bas-reliefs by the side of a promenade incorporated into the 2004 coastal defence scheme at Newton’s Cove.

Part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, the cove's slopes and foreshore are also a Site of Special Scientific Interest owing to a rare geological formation of clay, sands and grits known as the Nothe series. Weymouth, Dorset.

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Baptist Chapel / Weymouth

By George Welsford, builder, 1814, with original frontage of "two matching houses". Given this Roman-Doric façade in 1859. Hipped slate roof hidden by pediment. Listed Grade II. Bank Buildings, Weymouth, Dorset. 

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Weymouth / from Jurassic Skyline

Vista including parts of Weymouth harbour and beach from the Jurassic Skyline observation tower. Weymouth, Dorset.

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Jurassic Skyline / observation tower

Constructed in 2012 in time for the Olympic sailing events, the tower is 53m tall with a rotating gondola. It is now known as the Jurassic Skyline tower. Inevitably controversial and likened by a local to a factory chimney, it was constructed in 8 months at a privately-funded cost of £3.5M. Weymouth, Dorset.

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St Stephen's / from New Court

Grade I listed Church of St Stephen's, Walbrook, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, 1679. Seen from the podium of New Court (Rothschild HQ), designed by OMA, 2011. City of London. 

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Bank of England / Aug 2015

Part of façade of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street. "Largely rebuilt by Sir Herbert Baker in 1921 to 37. Listed for greatly altered screen-wall by Sir John Soane, late C18 to early C19 and for various elements of old building, by Soane and by Sir Robert Taylor (2nd half C18) which were reconstituted in something like their original form within the new structure." (British Listed Buildings). Grade I listed. City of London. 

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Underground roundel / Lombard St

Roundel at the Lombard Street entrance to Bank Underground station. A form of the roundel started to be used c.1908 and was refined into a Company trademark c.1917 by typographer Edward Johnston. It was Charles Holden who later fully incorporated the roundel into station architecture. City of London. 

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Leadenhall Building / east

Looking up at the east elevation of the Leadenhall Building — aka 'The Cheesegrater' — designed by RSHP, 2014. Steel and glass wedge, 225m tall, in the familiar structural expressionist style of this practice. City of London. 

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West Pier / i360

Left, the remains of the West Pier, made of cast-iron and designed by Eugenius Birch, 1866. Right, some of the rolled-steel "cans" made for the i360 observation tower. The shorter cylinders have thicker walls for the lower stages. They are assembled bottom-up using a jacking system and finally clad in an aluminium veil. i360 designed by Marks & Barfield, expected completion summer 2016. City of Brighton & Hove. 

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i360 / Aug 2015

Work-in-progress on the i360 observation tower. By the time the final steel cylinder (or "can") has been inserted, the column will be 162m high — the tallest structure in Sussex. Architects: Marks & Barfield, the couple that designed the London Eye. Completion expected summer 2016. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex.

Two of the posters displayed at the construction site of the i360, showing an artist's impression of the finished tower and a comparison of tower heights. "The world's tallest moving observation tower" is scheduled to complete in summer 2016. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex. 

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Newbury Park Station / I, II & III

Tube-bus interchange building in the Modern style by architect Oliver Hill (1887-1968), designed in 1937 but built after WW2 in 1949. Barrel vault consisting of seven concrete arches supporting a copper-clad roof. Grade II listed and also a recipient of a Festival of Britain Award for Merit in 1951. London Borough of Redbridge. 

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Pointe North / from Glengall Bridge

Seifert Architects 1988-90, constructed over part of the Inner Millwall Dock. At Greenwich View Place, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Canary Wharf DLR station / 2015

Architects: GEC-Mowlem 1991. Six platforms serving three DLR tracks. Soaring elliptical roof of steel and glass. Seen from south in this image. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Baltimore Tower / Aug 2015

Work-in-progress on Baltimore Tower, 4/Aug/2015. Architects: SOM, completion due 2016. Many apartments already sold off-plan to overseas investors. Isle of Dogs, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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The Old Dr Butler's Head / Masons' Ave

Sign of public house named after William Butler (1535–1617), court physician to James I, medical empiricist and serious drinker. In Masons' Avenue, the narrow street where the Masons' Livery Company had its hall from 1463 to 1865. City of London.

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Vents / Exchange House

Architects: SOM, 1990. Detail of the Exchange House building-bridge hybrid which spans the railway tracks just north of Liverpool Street station, City of London. 

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