Monday, 25 February 2019

Excel Marina / Western Gateway

In distance, the ExCel exhibition centre and the Sunborn Yacht Hotel. London Borough of Newham. 
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Sunday, 24 February 2019

Fountain / Wimbledon Parkside

Cast-iron drinking fountain on pink granite plinth. Originally (1860) located on The Strand by Somerset House. Relocated here in 1904. Grade II listed. London Borough of Merton. 
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Congregational Church / Wimbledon

Built 1957 in Fairlawn Road/Dundonald Road, Wimbledon. London Borough of Merton. 
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Saturday, 23 February 2019

UEL 2019 / II

Edward Cullinan Architects Ltd., 1996-99. Student residences at University of East London. London Borough of Newham. 
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Friday, 22 February 2019

UEL 2019 / I

Fraser Brown Mackenna Architects, 2007. Student residences at University of East London. London Borough of Newham. 
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Thursday, 21 February 2019

Jehangir Fountain / NW1

Architect: Robert Keirle of the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, 1869. In the Victorian Gothic style using white Sicilian marble, pink and grey Aberdeen granite. Grade II listed. Broad Walk, Regent's Park, London Borough of Camden.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2019

ZSL Meeting Rooms / NW1

Architects: Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks and Musgrave (Michael Huckstepp), 1965, in the Brutalist style. The Zoological Society of London Meeting Rooms and Nuffield Building, City of Westminster, London.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019

'Briarose' / Regent's Canal

Narrow boat 'Briarose' on the Regent's Canal, having just passed under the Regent's Park Road bridge (No. 15). London Borough of Camden. 
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Monday, 18 February 2019

Mural / Castlehaven Park

By Julian and James of Positive Arts, to celebrate the community park's 30th anniversary in 2016. London Borough of Camden. 
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Widford / NW1

Block of flats, part of the Castle Road Estate. In a brown-brick Brutalist style, if that isn't a contradiction in terms. Architects believed to be Max Lock & Associates, c.1969. London Borough of Camden. 
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Sunday, 17 February 2019

St Mark's / Regent's Canal

St Mark's seen from the Regent's Canal. The original architect was Thomas Little, 1852, although the Grade II listed church underwent a complete post-WW2 reconstruction. London Borough of Camden. 
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Saturday, 16 February 2019

APTN / Camden Town

Also known as the Interchange Building. Originally a warehouse, built 1901-5, to store and distribute freight between rail, road and docks via the Regent's Canal. The tower at the north end stored water for fire-fighting. Grade II listed. Now the home to Associated Press Television News. London Borough of Camden. 
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Friday, 15 February 2019

Silver Bonito / Chay Blyth

Thames and the City of London viewed from London Borough of Southwark. 
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Leathermarket Gdns / SE1

Northwesterly view from Leathermarket Gardens, showing parts of Guinness Court (1900), Guy's Hospital (1974) and The Shard (2012). London Borough of Southwark. 
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Thursday, 14 February 2019

Ship and Mermaid Row / SE1

Street in Bermondsey presumably named after the Ship and Mermaid public house which used to be at Snow's Fields. The street name is mentioned in Lockie's Topography of London, printed in 1810. London Borough of Southwark.
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Camden Lock Village / NW1

Architects: AHMM, 2019. Eight new buildings in the heart of Camden Town, at the old Hawley Wharf site. London Borough of Camden. 
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Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Canons Leisure Centre / Mitcham

Architects: Building Design Partnership, 1984. London Borough of Merton. 

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Bandstand / Victoria Park

A late C19 bandstand had to be demolished — I believe a 1940s one as well. According to Historic England this is a 1990s replacement on the same site. It hosts a summer season of music. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Burdett-Coutts Fountain / E9

Architect: H A Darbyshire, 1862, in a Victorian Gothic style "with Moorish touches", acccording to the Grade II* listing. In Victoria Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday, 11 February 2019

Pavilion Café / Victoria Park

Complementing the park's Victorian origins but built in the 1990s by Lengard Ltd. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Sunday, 10 February 2019

Pagoda Detail / Victoria Park

Reconstruction of the original 1842 pagoda featured at a Hyde Park exhibition of things Chinese. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Pennethorne Bridge / Victoria Park

Architect: Sir James Pennethorne (1801–1871), although unrealized in his time. Finally completed during C21 improvements to the park. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Pagoda / Victoria Park

Restoration of a Chinese Pagoda, the original which was re-sited here in 1847 following an exhibition of Chinese artifacts in central London. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Friday, 8 February 2019

'Skyscraper' / Ernő Bartha

Hay sculpture on the West Lake of Victoria Park. By Ernő Bartha (b. 1958 Romania), commissioned by the Romanian Cultural Institute with the support of Tower Hamlets Council. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Thursday, 7 February 2019

Velletri House / E2

Architects: Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin, 1964. Part of the Cranbrook Estate, designed by ex-Tecton architects. Viewed across the Regent's Canal. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

France House / QMUL

Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley, 2004. Clad in TECU® PATINA copper. France House forms part of the Westfield Student Village at Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus. Showing the east elevation which faces the Regent's Canal and Mile End Park. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Suttons Wharf / E2

• The long building is One Housing, designed by Stock Woolstencroft LLP, 2008. 

• Centre, 17-storey building known as Grand Regent Tower, designed by Burwell Deakins, 2014.

By the Regent's Canal, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday, 4 February 2019

Art Pavilion / Mile End

Gardner Stewart Architects, c.2000. Earth-sheltered building with glazed frontage towards lake. Mile End Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Sunday, 3 February 2019

Mile End Park / Terrace Garden

Part of a linear park over a mile in length in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Guardian Angels / Mile End

Architect: F.A. Walters, 1903, in revival of the Perpendicular Gothic. Grade II listed. The Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church replaced an 1868 mission chapel on the site. Mile End Road, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Saturday, 2 February 2019

Blackwall Basin / Canary Wharf

London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Friday, 1 February 2019

Manhattan Plaza / E14

Architects: Barton Willmore for Telford Homes, 2018. Residential redevelopment of a disused industrial site in Poplar. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.