Emirates / Air Line

WilkinsonEyre Architects, construction by Mace and Doppelmayr. Opened 2012, for scant practical purpose. Royal Borough of Greenwich, London. 

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Cinnabar Wharf / East

Andrew Cowan Architects, one of three nautical-style buildings comprising the Cinnabar Wharf development of 2002. 28 Wapping High St, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Oliver's Wharf / E1W

Architects: F & H Francis, 1870, originally as a tea warehouse, converted to residential in 1972. In a Venetian Gothic style using stock brick with red brick and stone dressings. Grade II listed. Viewed from the river Thames. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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MPU / Boatyard

Workshop for maintaining the Marine Police Unit vessels. There has been a river police force presence in Wapping since 1798, although this boatyard opened in 1973. I believe the white, relief panels are made of fibreglass. 98-102 Wapping High Street, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Sir John McDougal Gardens / E14

Small park by the Thames directly north of the red-brick New Atlas Wharf residences. Sir John McDougall Gardens dates from the mid-C20, named after the local businessman and politician who chaired the LCC in 1902-3. Behind can be seen parts of the Canary Wharf development. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Kelson House / E14

Master planning architects: Sir John Burnet, Tait & Partners for the LCC — although I have also seen the LCC Architect’s Department, headed by David Gregory-Jones, Colin Jones and Ian Hampson, credited with the tower's scissor-section design. 25-storeys, 145 dwellings, built by Tersons and completed in 1967. Part of the Samuda's Wharf Estate, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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St Peter / Newdigate

Built C12 - C13, sandstone rubble walls, Horsham slab roof. Timber belfry added C15, weatherboarded with oak-shingle broach spire. Some Gothic Revival windows from an 1877 restoration. Grade II* listed. Church of St Peter, Newdigate, Surrey. 

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Horizons Tower / II

Architects: RMA, 2016-17. 26-storey residential tower at Yabsley Street, Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Canary Wharf / Jul '21

View from east of Canary Wharf financial district and Wood Wharf residential. London.

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Design District / SE10

David Kohn Architects, 2021, work in progress. Green metalwork and glass block façade, roof-mounted sign. One of a group of sixteen buildings opening this year for the creative industries. North Greenwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London. 

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Vent / Drawdock Road

Ventilation shaft outlet for the northbound route of the Blackwall Tunnel. Built in the MCM style in the 1960s using reinforced concrete and brick infill, it provides additional ventilation for the 1897 tunnel. An upgrade c.2005 lets the roof open up like petals for smoke extraction in the event of vehicle fire in the tunnel. Drawdock Road, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

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Vista / North Greenwich

Looking west from outside North Greenwich station. Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

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Wood Wharf / Jul '21

New residential developments on Wood Wharf. Seen from across the Thames in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

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St Mary Merton / IV

The nave's open timber roof is said to be nearly 900 years old. Alternating round and octagonal columns support pointed arcades. The south and north aisles added in C19. Grade II* listed. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Merton Park, London Borough of Merton.

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War Memorial / Merton Park

Architect: H P Burke Downing, 1921. Tall cross on high plinth, Grade II listed. Grouped with St Mary Merton. London Borough of Merton.

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Driveway / John Innes Park

Gardener's Cottage c.1890 and Brick Archway c.1880 both designed by Henry Goodall Quartermain when this was the driveway to John Innes' Manor House. Now incorporated into the public park. London Borough of Merton.

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Barge House / Entrance

One of the entrances to an early-C20 warehouse range facing Barge House Street. The 5-storey brick building is now used for exhibitions and performances. Locally listed. 16-22 Barge House Street, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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Park Bower / SE1

Designed and carved by Arthur de Mowbray using an oak tree and red cedar for the roof. Installed 2013 in Archbishop's Park, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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Lambeth Palace / Gatehouse

Detail of Morton's Gatehouse (a.k.a. Morton's Tower), c.1490, in the Tudor style. Built for Cardinal John Morton, using red brick with blue diapering and stone dressings. Grade I listed. London Borough of Lambeth.

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Max Rayne Centre / SE1

Architects: Haworth Tompkins, 2014. Design studio, workshop and production offices for the National Theatre. Upper Ground, London Borough of Lambeth.

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Arch / Abbotsbury

Grade II listing says C14 material but re-used. British History Online describes this as C17, contemporaneous with the Abbey House, a secular building. Other sources believe it is a C18 folly. The stone is Corallian limestone with some Portland or Portesham stone. Abbotsbury, Dorset, UK.

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East Cliff / West Bay

Sandstone cliffs to the west of Chesil Beach, part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Dorset, UK.

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Antares 8 / Weymouth

Bénéteau Antares 8 series motor cruiser, Weymouth, Dorset, UK. 

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The Red Lion / DT4

Public House established 1851 near to what was the local brewery. Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset, UK.

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St Mary / Clock Tower

Architect: James Hamilton (1748-1829) in a neo-Palladian style using Portland stone cladding, completed 1817. Showing the clock tower with leaded cupola supported by 8 Roman Doric columns. Above, a ball finial with weather vane. Grade I listed. St Mary's Street, Weymouth, Dorset, UK.

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Tonic / Weymouth

Sailing vessel Tonic moored in Weymouth harbour on 23/Jun/2021. Weymouth, Dorset, UK. 

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Cove St / West

The brick-built dwelling's date stone indicates 1879. The other buildings likely constructed of Portland stone ashlar. West side of Cove Street, Weymouth, Dorset, UK. 

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Covid Memorial Wall / UK

"We are family and friends of some of the more than one hundred and fifty thousand people who’ve lost their lives to Covid-19. 

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Right now we are drawing hearts by hand on a wall opposite Parliament in London.

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Each heart represents someone who was loved. Someone who was lost too soon to Covid-19.

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Like the scale of our collective loss, this memorial is enormous. Small palm-sized hearts will cover more than half a kilometre of a two-metre high wall. It will take the best part of ten minutes to walk the length of it." [Source nationalcovidmemorialwall.org/] 

Near St Thomas' Hospital, London Borough of Lambeth. 

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Ship Inn / DT4

The Ship Inn, built C17 of Portland stone (now painted) and slate roof. Some late-C19 alterations according to Grade II listing. Weymouth, Dorset.

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Sunflower / Weymouth

Old Harbour, Weymouth, Dorset, UK. 

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Roof / Liners

• Left: Norwegian Bliss, built 2018 by Meyer Werft (Papenburg, Germany). 
• Right: Arcadia, built 2005 by Fincantieri (Marghera, Italy).

Seen from Osmington Mills, Jurassic Coast, Dorset, UK.

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