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Monday, 25 February 2019
Excel Marina / Western Gateway
In distance, the ExCel exhibition centre and the Sunborn Yacht Hotel. London Borough of Newham.
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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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
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
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.
• 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
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.
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