Morden Park House / III

Grade II* listed Georgian house built 1770 for the Ewart family. Now council offices including a Register Office. London Borough of Merton.

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Chiswick House / Stone Urns

[from the archives of 2012]

Stone urns and cypresses to side of north approach to Chiswick House. Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) and William Kent, early 18th century. London Borough of Hounslow. 

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Morden Park House / II

Showing rear garden wall incorporating a circular shelter with conical slate roof. Included in the grade II* listing. Built 1770 for the Ewart family. London Borough of Merton. 

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Ionic Temple / #2

[from the archives of 2012]

Chiswick House Grounds, built by Lord Burlington early 18th century. The circular domed building faces a round pond to north and a brook to south. Grade I listed. London Borough of Hounslow.

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Morden Park House / I

Grade II* listed Georgian house built 1770 for the Ewart family. Now council offices including a Register Office. London Borough of Merton.

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St Barnabas / CR4

Architect: H P Burke-Downing, 1914, grade II listed. Neo-Gothic style using brown brick and stone dressings. Here showing the clock/bell tower with saddleback roof and tall lancets around the belfry. Church of St Barnabas, Mitcham, London Borough of Merton. 

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'Shack Stack' / Grosvenor Waterside

[from the archives of 2012]

Sculptor: Richard Wilson, 2010, cast aluminium with internal steel frame, height 8m. Behind, part of the west elevation of Caro Point (and a corner of Moore House) by architects Sheppard Robson, 2011. At the Grosvenor Waterside residential development in Pimlico, City of Westminster, London.

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Tooting Junction Baptist Church / SW17

Brick-built in the Modern style with arched porch, decorative quoining and 1937 in Roman numerals on the parapet. The railway junction here is long gone and the nearby station and locale is now known as Tooting. 158-160 Longley Road, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Christ Church / Turnham Green

[from the archives of 2012]

Architects: Sir George Gilbert Scott & William Bonython Moffatt, 1843. Gothic Revival style with knapped flint walls, brick spire and stone dressings. Grade C listed. London Borough of Hounslow.

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Merton Civic Centre / SM4

Architect: A Green, 1962, construction by Bernard Sunley & Sons. Known as Crown House, it consists of a curved 14-storey tower over a 2-storey podium. The tower was occupied by the local authority from 1985, with a front extension added for a council chamber, offices and library. Morden, London Borough of Merton. 

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Gateway / Inigo Jones, 1621

[from the archives of 2012]

Architect: Inigo Jones (1573-1652), built 1621. Relocated to Chiswick House Grounds in 1738 by Lord Burlington. Grade I listed. London Borough of Hounslow.

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My SU-800 / Debao

Speedlite transmitter for Nikon CLS, made by Yuyao Debao Photographic Equipment Co., PRC. Less expensive than the Nikon version yet with greater range. 

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SIS Building / 2014

[from the archives of 2014]

Secret Intelligence Service's postmodern building at Vauxhall Cross. SIS is sometimes known as MI6. Architects: T Farrell & Company. 1990-93. 

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St Barnabas' Church / Pimlico

[from the archives of 2012]

Architect: Thomas Cundy II, 1850. In Early English Gothic revival style with a prominent, recently restored, broach spire. Grade I listed. City of Westminster, London. 

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Eagle House / Mitcham

Architect unknown, but regarded as one of the best surviving examples of 'Queen Anne' style houses in London and the southeast. Built 1705 on land formerly owned by Sir Walter and Lady Elizabeth Raleigh. Now used as a SEN school. Grade I listed. London Borough of Merton. 

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London Aquatics Centre / 2012

[from the archives of 2012]

Exterior

Main pool

Diving pool

Zaha Hadid Architects, 2011.  Exterior view at the north end showing the stingray-like roof.  The roof is constructed of steel trusses with aluminium and timber cladding and weighs 2,800 tonnes.  London Borough of Newham.

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Tower Bridge / Shard, Feb 2012

[from the archives of 2012]

Tower Bridge and behind, Shard London Bridge with the faceted spire glazing now being assembled. Architects: Sir Horace Jones and Renzo Piano respectively. February 2012 from Hermitage Riverside Memorial Garden, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Victoria Coach Station

[from the archives of 2010]

Architects: Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1932. Purpose-built in the Art Deco style, it is London's main coach terminal. At Buckingham Palace Road and Elizabeth Street, City of Westminster. 

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Miracles / Mitcham

Premises of the regional HQ of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, 39-41 Monarch Parade, London Road, Mitcham. Currently under statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission. Monarch Parade built 1938, brickwork rendered c.1980. London Borough of Merton. 

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Lloyd's Building / Grade I listed

[from the archives of 2012]

Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP), 1986. The Lloyd's of London Insurance building with the oil-refinery looks is now Grade I listed. The announcement by English Heritage on 19 December 2011 described it "as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch". City of London.

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My SB-400 / Speedlite

Pocket-sized Nikon speedlite with tilting head and fast recycling. 

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New Wimbledon Theatre

[from the archives of 2012]

Architects: Cecil Masey and Roy Young, 1910. Grade II listed. At the Broadway and Russell Road, Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton.

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The Blue Building / roof detail

[from the archives of 2012]

Architects: CZWG, c.2003. 'It avoids "the uptight rules of British architecture", said Piers Gough ' — The New York Times, 26/Jun/2003. At 40 Vanston Place, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

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Pyramid Building / Jubilee Yard

[from the archives of 2012]

Architects: Dransfield Owens Da Silva, c.1996. Three-floor office building with ground floor occupied by its architects. London Borough of Southwark. 

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Morden Cottage / SM4

Grade II listed villa of late C18 to early C19. Painted weatherboard; stucco on the section with crenellated parapet. Now occupied by the London Acorn School. Morden Hall Park Estate, London Borough of Merton. 

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Hartington Court / 3

[from the archives of 2011]

Architect: John E Adams, completed 1938. Thames-side apartments in the nautical moderne or streamline moderne Deco style. Ferro-concrete, brick and white render. Locally listed, but not nationally listed at this time as far as I am aware. Chiswick, London Borough of Hounslow.

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Pitzhanger Manor House / The Library

[from the archives of 2011]

Architect: Sir John Soane, built 1800-04. The restored library room, its cross-vaulted ceiling painted with a trellis intertwined by delicate flowers. The excellent restoration has made reference to documentation at the Soane Museum plus original paint sample analysis. Grade I listed building. London Borough of Ealing.

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Chiswick Park Station / exterior

[from the archives of 2011]

Architect: Charles Holden, 1933. Semi-circular brick and concrete ticket hall with large clerestory windows. A brick tower broadcasts the London Underground roundel and station name. Charles Holden (1875-1960) is probably best recognised for his fine modernist architecture for the London Underground system. The station is Grade II listed. London Borough of Ealing.

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Maggie's London / 2

[from the archives of 2011]

Architects: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, 2008. Cancer care centre, winner of the Stirling Prize 2009 among others. London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

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The Bothy / SM4

Single storey, weather-boarded cottage with tall chimney stack. Known as The Bothy, it is described in the local listing as a "very humble agricultural cottage" and thought to be pre-C19. It adjoins Mill Cottage seen on the left. Morden Hall Park Estate, London Borough of Merton. 

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Peckham Library / 1 - 4

[from the archives of 2011]

Architects: Will Alsop & Jan Störmer, 1999. Stirling prize-winning library built as part of a regeneration scheme, library budget GBP6.75M. The concrete-framed building is clad in pre-patinated copper, with glazing on the north elevation. London Borough of Southwark.

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14-24 / Morden Hall Rd

Mansion block of flats likely to have been built in the 1930s after the opening of Morden Underground station in 1926. London Borough of Merton. 

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Hester Road offices

[from the archives of 2011]

Showing parts of Hutchison House and 7-11 Hester Road, the latter one of several buildings in the area designed and occupied by Foster & Partners c.2004. Concrete frame with glazed facades and set-back ground floor. Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.

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