Metro Central Heights / North

Architect: Ernö Goldfinger using reinforced concrete frame with steel-frame windows and Vitrolite spandrel panels. Showing what was originally Block A, Alexander Fleming House, this phase built 1959-62. Remodelled from offices into flats c.2002 and now Grade II listed. London Borough of Southwark.

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Vantage Metro / SE1

Architects: Broadway Malyan, 2008, for St George developers. Erected next to Ernö Goldfinger's 1966 Alexander Fleming House (seen behind with the blue spandrel panels). The whole development is now residential, known as Metro Central Heights, and the Goldfinger buildings are Grade II listed. London Borough of Southwark. 

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K2 / SW1

Listing text:

"K2 Telephone Box Adjacent to Number 48. A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London. 
Telephone Kiosk. 1927. By Giles Gilbert Scott. Cast iron. Intact square kiosk of K2 type with domed roof, perforated crowns to top panels and glazing bars to windows and door". 

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St Mary le Strand / WC2

Architect: James Gibbs, 1717, in the English Baroque style. During the C20, this Grade I listed church only just survived urban planners and the Blitz. Strand, City of Westminster, London WC2. 

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Riverwalk / looking up

Architects: Stanton Williams, 2016. New residential building for developer Gerald Ronson. At 161 Millbank, City of Westminster, London SW1.

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Fountain / Bessborough Gdns

• Cast-aluminium fountain of 1982 designed by Sir Peter Shepheard (1913-2002), who was also landscape architect for the surrounding gardens. The formal name is the Queen Mother's Commemorative Fountain and it incorporates a likeness of G J Vulliamy's entwined dolphins, as seen on lamp standards along the embankment.

• Behind, new residential building 'Riverwalk' designed by Stanton Williams, 2016.

City of Westminster, London. 

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Aldgate Place / E1

Architects: Allies & Morrison, 2017, for Barratt London and British Land. Opp. Aldgate East station, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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One Creechurch Pl / EC3

Architects: Sheppard Robson, 2016. 17-floor office building in the City of London.

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Vent / City of London School

Architect: Thomas Meddings and Stuart Murphy, 1986. Paul's Walk, City of London.

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Ambassador Bldg / Embassy Gdns

Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, 2015. One of several residential developments surrounding the new US Embassy. Nine Elms, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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St James Garlickhythe / Steeple

Architects: Office of Sir Christopher Wren, in the English Baroque style, Grade I listed. Church completed 1682, steeple in 1717. Garlick Hill, City of London. 

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US Embassy / SW

Architects: KieranTimberlake, 2018. Exterior detail, south-west corner. Nine Elms, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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US Embassy / Flag

New US embassy in London now open. Architects: KieranTimberlake, 2018. Sculpted ETFE skin over blast-proof glazing. Nine Elms, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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'Lucky Lou' / by A Price

Mascot on Victor K2 XM717 painted by Cpl. Andy Price of 55 Squadron, 1991, in Bahrain. Since 2007 there has been MOD prohibition of 'pin-up' aircraft art, based on equal opportunities policy. RAF Museum Colindale, London Borough of Barnet. 

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Memorial Window / Pembroke Dock

Stained glass window, 1945, commemorating the loss of aircrew flying out of Pembroke Dock in WW2. Includes badges of units of the RAF, the Dominion air-forces and the US Navy. The piece was restored in 1992 and is now installed in the RAF Museum Colindale. London Borough of Barnet. 

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Blavatnik Bldg / Level 2

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, 2016. London Borough of Southwark.

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Proud Camden / sign

Sign for a venue in the Stables section of Camden Market. London Borough of Camden.

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King's Cross Station / Clock Tower

Architect: Lewis Cubitt, 1852. Grade I listed railway station. Clock tower restored 2011. London Borough of Camden.

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Heybridge House / NW1

Architects: Max Lock & Associates, c.1969. Part of the Castle Road Estate, London Borough of Camden. 

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'Violins Violence Silence' / Bruce Nauman

Installation made 1981-2 by Bruce Nauman (b.1941 USA). Neon tubes approx. 1.6m x 1.7m x .15m, weight 303kg, wall-mounted. The piece realized USD4M at a 2009 Sotheby's auction. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

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Blavatnik Bldg / Level 0

Base of the Blavatnik Building, where concrete from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's 1950s power station is retained within Herzog & de Meuron's 2016 conversion. London Borough of Southwark.

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Steles / by Per Kirkeby

Læsø IV and Læsø V, 1984, by artist Per Kirkeby (b.1938, Denmark). Red-brick and mortar. At the Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

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Wood Wharf / from East

Residential development in progress on Wood Wharf, including... 

 • The Grid Building designed by Grid Architects; 

 • One Park Drive designed by Herzog & de Meuron;

Masterplan by Allies & Morrison. Completion c.2019. Canary Wharf, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Nikkor DX / 18-105mm VR

Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm 1:3.5-5.6G ED. Bought this when my 18-70mm was being repaired and found it to be a useful general purpose zoom.

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Church of the Holy Trinity / Kerameikos

Greek Orthodox Ekklisia Agia Triada surrounded by the remains of an ancient (>3,000 years) cemetery. The district — Kerameikos — was once the potters' quarter of the city and gave rise to the English word "Ceramics". Athens, Greece.

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Hadrian's Library / from East

Remains of Hadrian's Library seen from the east, looking over the courtyard area. Built AD132 sponsored by Roman Emperor Hadrian. Aiolou St., Athens, Greece.

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Poster Wall / Agatharchou

Concert posters in Agatharchou St., along with the inevitable graffiti. Athens, Greece. 

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Constantine XI / Statue

Statue of Constantine XI Palaeologus (1404-1453), the last Emperor of Byzantium, who died at the fall of Constantinople. Sculptor unknown but this is one of several similar statues in Greece. Plateía Mitropóleos, Athens, Greece.

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Mitrópolis / Athens

Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, designed in a Byzantine Revival style by F.Boulanger, T.Hansen, P.Kalkos, E.Schaubert, D.Zezos, et al., 1842-62. Now restored after the 1981 and 1999 earthquakes. Plateía Mitropóleos, Athens, Greece. 

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'Συμπορευσις' / by SimpleG

Outstanding street-art by SimpleG, 2017, who studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts. I'm unsure of the appropriate translation, so show the original title. In Nika Louka street, Psyri district, Athens, Greece.

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Parking / Kriezi 8

Payment kiosk — attached to the side of the Armenian Orthodox Cathedral — for surface car-park at 8 Kriezi, Athens, Greece.

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Sonriots / Aristotelous

Street-art cat by Sonriots, 2017, at 8 Aristotelous, Athens, Greece.

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