Blue Shuttered / Stratonos

House on Stratonos (ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ) Street in the Anafiotika-Plaka district. Athens, Attica, Greece.

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Parthenon / 2019

Architects: Ictinus and Callicrates, built 447-438 BC using Pentelic marble. On the Acropolis, Athens, Greece.

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Odeon / Herodes Atticus

Ancient Roman theatre located near to the earlier Theatre of Dionysos. This one built 161 AD by Herodes Atticus and restored c.1950-55. The 'Herodeion' is a working performance venue. Athens, Attica, Greece. 

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Γάτα / Eastern Parodos

Venerable, feline inhabitant of the Eastern Parodos. This location used to be the main entrance into the Theatre of Dionysos. Athens, Attica, Greece. 

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Temple / Athena Nike

Architect: Callicrates, c.420BC, part of the Periclean building program. Tetrastyle Ionic temple on west bastion of the Acropolis. Made of Pentelic marble, with monolithic columns. Athens, Attica, Greece. 

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Happy Holidays / 2019

Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Hawley Wharf / NW1

Westerly view of some of the new buildings at Camden Town's Hawley Wharf site. Architects: AHMM, 2019. London Borough of Camden. 

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The Narrow / E14

Built c.1905-10 as a British Waterways Customs House on the west quay of Regent's Canal Dock entrance. Grade II listed. Now a TV chef's gastropub. Narrow Street, Limehouse, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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West Tower / Lots Rd

First of two residential towers included in the Lots Road Power Station redevelopment. Designed by Farrells, tower 1 completed 2019. Seen from across the river Thames in London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Tower Bridge / 2019

Architects: Sir Horace Jones and George Stevenson, 1894, in a Gothic Revival style. Bascule and suspension bridge constructed of concrete, steel and masonry. Grade I listed. London Borough of Tower Hamlets (north side).

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Natalie Bell Building / II

Previously known as the Boiler Room, now known after a local community worker as part of an art project by Tania Bruguera. The old power station's conversion to art gallery was by architects Herzog & de Meuron, 2000. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark. 

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Natalie Bell Building / I

Previously known as the Boiler Room, now known after a local community worker as part of an art project by Tania Bruguera. The old power station's conversion to art gallery was by architects Herzog & de Meuron, 2000. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

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Kamp / Highgate

Kamp family memorial in Highgate Cemetery East. London Borough of Camden.

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Newfoundland / Landmark Pinnacle

The diamond-pattern tower reaching completion is Newfoundland, designed by Horden Cherry Lee architects. It will provide 636 apartments over 60 storeys.  

The new build to right is the Landmark Pinnacle designed by Squire and Partners. When complete next year it will be London's tallest residential tower at 75 storeys.

Seen from Limehouse, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Pauline House / E1

Architect: George Finch for the London County Council (LCC), c.1963. Building originally known as Spring Walk. 19-floor high-rise providing 74 residential flats. A fine Brutalist flourish to the roof line. Old Montague Street, Whitechapel, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Eiffel Tower / St Pancras

Scaled-down likeness of the Eiffel Tower, installed during the festive season to advertise Lancôme perfumes. St Pancras International railway station, London Borough of Camden. 

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Chelsea Waterfront / Dec 2019

Architect: Farrells, for Hutchison Property Group. Work-in-progress on the redevelopment of the former Lots Road Power Station. The 37-storey West Tower is completed and a second tower will follow. 

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There is an alternative / ...

... to Tory neo-liberalism. Avant Garde Tower, architects: Stock Woolstencroft, 2014. Warren truss rail-bridge, designed by Benaim, 2010. Allen Gardens, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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St John's Wharf / Capt Kidd

Left, a large six-storey warehouse built c.1870, now converted to residential. To right is another warehouse conversion, in this case to the Captain Kidd public house. Wapping, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Stupa / SW11

Architects: Minoru Ohoka, Tom Hancock, 1985. Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Metropolitan Wharf / E1

Former 'D' Warehouse, built between 1862 and 1898 using stock brick. Grade II listed, now principally residential, conversion by Hawkins\Brown. Wapping Wall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Eclipsed / E14

Centre: One Canada Square, Cesar Pelli & Associates, 1991.
Left: Newfoundland, Horden Cherry Lee, 2019.
Right: One Bank Street, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, 2019.
Canary Wharf, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Ordnance Jetty / SE10

Ageing jetty surviving from an earlier industrial era on the Greenwich Peninsula, now a home to wildlife. Called Airy’s Point on some maps and crossed by the Greenwich Meridian line. On the opposite bank, New Providence Wharf (SOM) and Horizons Tower (RMA). Royal Borough of Greenwich, London. 

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Winter Light / Isle of Dogs

The ever-changing Canary Wharf district on the Isle of Dogs, December 2019. Viewed from North Greenwich, London. 

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Giant Wheel / Vista

Seen from the Giant Wheel in Hyde Park. View includes the Shard and the other Ferris wheel, the London Eye. 2019 Winter Wonderland fair, City of Westminster, London. 

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Giant Wheel / Hyde Park

"World's tallest mobile Ferris Wheel" by Göbel-Worms. 70m high with 48 gondolas. Currently installed in Hyde Park for the 2019 Winter Wonderland fair. City of Westminster, London. 

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Merry-go-round / Hyde Park

Traditional merry-go-round at Hyde Park's 'Winter Wonderland 2019' fair. City of Westminster, London. 

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St John's / Notting Hill

Architects: J.H.Stevens and G.Alexander, 1845, in Early English Gothic Revival style, using Kentish ragstone and Bath stone dressings. Grade II listed. Ladbroke Grove, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.

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Earl of Lonsdale / W11

Public house on corner of Westbourne Grove and Portobello Road. Probably built in the mid-C19; channeled stucco over brick. The hanging glass lanterns are a typical feature of several pubs in this area. Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.

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Dale Chihuly / V&A

Entrance chandelier by Dale Chihuly (b.1941 USA). Free-blown and mould-blown elements, individually tied to a steel armature. Made in 2001, on loan from Chihuly Studio, Seattle, Washington, USA. At the V&A, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 

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Museum of Childhood / x2 pics

Original design by James Wild, 1872. Grade II* listed for very special significance as one of the earliest surviving examples of a pre-fabricated iron-frame structure. Bethnal Green, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Wardrobe Place / Sign

The King's Wardrobe was a house bought by Edward III in 1359 to store ceremonial robes. The building was burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666, but the name remains [info source: The Streets of London, S.Fairfield]. City of London. 

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Design Museum / x3 pics

Atrium

Refurbishment of the former Grade II* listed Commonwealth Institute by John Pawson et al., 2016. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Interior

Dynamic display by Studio Myerscough for the 'Designer Maker User' permanent exhibition. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Column

One of the two interior columns supporting the museum's curving concrete roof. Original architects: RMJM, 1962.  (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The Kite / Nov '19

Architects: SPPARC. Showing progress on the 20-storey tower over a 3-storey podium between Newington Causeway and Tiverton Street. Intended to provide 140 hotel rooms, 48 apartments and ground-level retail. London Borough of Southwark. 

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22 Bishopsgate / Nov '19

Glazing almost complete on this 62-storey, 278m-tall office tower in the City of London. PLP Architecture for AXA Real Estate and Lipton Rogers Developments. Viewed from south side of the river Thames in London Borough of Southwark.

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Battersea Flower Station / Sign

Stencilled sign on wall of florist and garden centre. Battersea High Street, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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251 / Southwark Bridge Rd

Architects: Allies & Morrison, 2017. 41-storey residential tower comprising 335 apartments. Viewed from the Elephant & Castle. London Borough of Southwark.

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Elephant & Castle / Statue

Situated outside an entrance to the shopping centre. The Elephant & Castle district is currently in the grip of an unpleasant redevelopment. London Borough of Southwark.

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St Paul's Cathedral / Nov 2019

Architect: Christopher Wren, 1708, in the English Baroque style. Grade I listed. Seen from One New Change roof terrace. City of London. 

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Morden Hall / East

Manor House built some time between 1759 and 1765 for Richard Garth. Grade II listed. The cast-iron bridge in foreground, also Grade II listed, dates from last half of C19. London Borough of Merton.

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Footbridge / Morden Hall Park

Cast-iron footbridge with decorative balustrade and timber treads. Presumably built when the park was developed in the 1860s and 1870s by Gilliat Hatfeild Sr. Morden Hall Park, London Borough of Merton.

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Stable Yard / Morden Hall

Arched entrance to stable yard, c.1869, for Gilliat Hatfeild Sr. London stock brick in Flemish bond, timber bell-tower with clock, weather-vane with fish pointer. The stable yard was refurbished c.2010 (Cowper Griffith Architects LLP), although this structure's design remains relatively unchanged since Victorian times. London Borough of Merton.

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Faraday Memorial / SE1

Grade II listed sculpture completed 1961, designed by the celebrated Brutalist architect Rodney Gordon (1933-2008). Clad with stainless-steel dished panels and appearing to be suspended from a core yoke, alluding to Michael Faraday's discoveries in electromagnetic induction. Appropriately, the sculpture actually does house a transformer for electrical supply to the Northern Line. Elephant & Castle, London Borough of Southwark. 

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St Magnus House / 2019

Architects: Seiferts, c.1978. 3 Lower Thames Street, City of London.

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'Single Form' / 1961-62

Sculptor: Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975, UK), BH314, bronze 3.12m x 2.00m x 0.25m. Founder: Morris Singer Ltd., (Edition of 2). Dedicated by the sculptor to Dag Hammarskjöld. Grade II* listed. Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Mitcham Church / 2019

Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Mitcham. Architect: George Smith, 1822, in the Perpendicular Gothic-Revival style. Master-Builder: John Chart. Channelled 'Roman' cement render with some Bath stone dressings. Grade II*-listed. London Borough of Merton.

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Clarence Lodge / Grove House

Architect: William Wardell, c.1855, for Stephens & Yolande Lyne-Stephens. Thought to have first been a gardener's cottage. The coat-of-arms on exterior chimney breast is of the Lyne-Stephens family. Unlisted and now used by the Froebel Educational Institute. Clarence Lane, Roehampton, London Borough of Wandsworth.

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