St Peter's / Hove

Architect: Claude Kelly, 1915, in Lombard Romanesque Revival style. Showing campanile and open pediments. Grade II listed. Portland Road, Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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'Unfurl' / E O'Connell

Bronze sculpture of 2000 by Eilís O’Connell (b.1953 Derry NI) commissioned by the residents of Kensington Gate with support from the Henry Moore Foundation. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.

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New Providence Wharf / E14

Including the 44-storey, mixed-use Providence Tower, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), completed in 2016. Taken from North Greenwich although the development is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Wood Wharf / 20180924

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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Dollar Bay / East

Dollar Bay residential tower designed by SimpsonHaugh architects, 2017. Partly visible behind it is the work-in-progress on Make's The Madison residential tower. The curvilinear tower to left is Baltimore Tower, aka Arena Tower, by SOM 2017. Image taken across the Thames from North Greenwich. 

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Canary Wharf / 20180924

Canary Wharf financial district seen from North Greenwich. Showing new work on Wood Wharf residential and, behind, the cross-braced Newfoundland tower which is also residential. 

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Kensington Palace / x2

Kensington Palace / East

Kensington Palace / South

Jacobean mansion of 1605, extended 1689-1695 by Christopher Wren and 1718-1726 by William Kent. Grade I listed. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 

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Pump House / W2

Portland-stone pump house, c.1861, in Italianate style. Originally housing a steam engine to operate the fountains, the square tower concealing a chimney. Called Pavilion of The Fountains in the Grade II listing. Italian Gardens, Kensington Gardens, City of Westminster, London. 

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London Mastaba / IV-VI

Artist: Christo (b.1935, Bulgaria). Comprising 7,506 coloured barrels, 20m high, 600 tonnes, floating on the Serpentine lake. Soon to be dismantled and recycled. City of Westminster, London, UK. 

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'The Arch' / H Moore

Travertine arch by Henry Moore (1898-1986), presented by the sculptor to the nation in 1980. The stones weigh 37 tonnes and the piece is 6m high. Restoration completed 2012. Kensington Gardens, City of Westminster, London.

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Buckhill Lodge / W2

Built 1858 according to wall plaque, originally as a park lodge. White brick in a picturesque Tudor-influenced style, Grade II listed. Last refurbished 2012 and now a residential let. Near Westbourne Gate to the north of the Buckhill area of Kensington Gardens. City of Westminster, London. 

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Energy Centre / Liverpool

Architects: Levitt Bernstein, 2010, for University of Liverpool Energy Company. RIBA Awards 2011 winner. Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.

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'Routes' / S O'Malley

Spray-paint street art, by Shane O'Malley from Ireland, for the 2018 Contrast Mural Festival. Gildart Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.

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RC Cathedral / Liverpool

Architect: Sir Frederick Gibberd, 1967. Concrete with Portland stone cladding, aluminium roof. Grade II* listed. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, UK. 

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Constance Street / Art

Street art by Emily Gray from Vancouver, Canada. Corner of Gildart St and Constance St, Liverpool L3, Merseyside. 

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Northern Bloc / Van

Ice cream van on the South Bank. London Borough of Lambeth.

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Kettleby House / SW9

LCC Architect's Department, Housing Division, 1955, part of the Loughborough Estate council housing development. The estate provided over 1,000 dwellings in medium and low-rise modernist blocks of flats and maisonettes. Loughborough Junction, London Borough of Lambeth.

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Sacred Heart / Battersea

Architect: Frederick Walters, 1893, in Romanesque (Norman) Revival style. Listed Grade II. View of the west tower and broached steeple. London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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QEH / 2018

Queen Elizabeth Hall seen from Waterloo Bridge. Architects: Norman Engleback et al. LCC/GLC Department of Architecture, 1967. The current billboard commission is by Su-Mei Tse, A Certain Frame Work 3 (Villa Farnesina). South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

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NT 2018 / II

Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun, 1976, in the Brutalist style. Grade II* listed. National Theatre, South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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'South of the River' / B Schottlander

Stainless-steel sculpture of 1976 by Bernhard Schottlander (1926-1999, German-born Jewish refugee to UK in 1939). Grade II listed in 2016. Commissioned by architect Eugene Rosenberg for the front of Becket House, 1 Lambeth Palace Road, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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57 Stamford St / SE1

The Doric portico was originally the entrance to a Unitarian Chapel built in 1821. The main body of the disused chapel was demolished in 1964 — the portico retained and Grade II listed. A 7-storey residential development, in modern style, was added c.2014. It provides 59 flats for short-term rental. London Borough of Lambeth. 

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Roupell St / SE1

Built as artisans' housing in the 1820s, street named after the developer John Palmer Roupell, a metal dealer. Now in a conservation area with most buildings Grade II listed. Roofs run transverse to the street allowing a repetitive gable-shaped parapet line. London Borough of Lambeth.

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Anchor Tap / SE1

Sign says built 1761, grade II listing says early to mid-C19, so presumably rebuilt. Originally the local outlet of the Anchor Brewhouse next to Tower Bridge. London Borough of Southwark. 

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Shad Thames / SE1

Street in the historic warehouse district next to Tower Bridge, its name possibly a contraction of 'St John at Thames'. The elevated catwalks were originally for goods transfer between warehouses. London Borough of Southwark. 

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China Wharf / 2018

CZWG Architects, 1988. Victorian warehouse conversion to apartments. Unusual, red pagoda-like façade incorporating balconies. Grade II listed in May 2018. Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark. 

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Square Mile / 20180830

More high-rises in the Square Mile and more imminent. City of London, seen from London Borough of Southwark.

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St John's Waterloo / Steeple

Architect: Francis Octavius Bedford, 1824, in the Greek Revival style. Grade II* listed. Waterloo Road, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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One London Bridge / 2018

Architects: John S Bonnington Partnership, 1986. Upwards view from concourse on the north-west corner. London Borough of Southwark. 

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