Thursday 30 September 2021

Wendover / Car Ramp

Southwark Borough Architects led by H P Trenton, in a modern style, part of the Aylesbury Estate built in the 1960-70s. Now scheduled for demolition. London Borough of Southwark.
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Wednesday 29 September 2021

Wendover / Stairs

Southwark Borough Architects led by H P Trenton, in a modern style, part of the Aylesbury Estate built in the 1960-70s. Now scheduled for demolition. London Borough of Southwark.

Tuesday 28 September 2021

Wendover / Ramp

Southwark Borough Architects led by H P Trenton, in a modern style. Pedestrian ramp and raised walkways at Wendover house, part of the Aylesbury Estate. Now scheduled for demolition as part of the controversial regeneration of this large housing estate. London Borough of Southwark. 

Monday 27 September 2021

Wendover / SE

Southwark Borough Architects led by H P Trenton, in a modern style, part of the Aylesbury Estate built in the 1960-70s. Here, a southeast view of Wendover. Reinforced concrete frame clad in large pre-fabricated concrete panels, a system build known as Jespersen 12M. Now scheduled for demolition as part of the controversial regeneration of this large housing estate. London Borough of Southwark.
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Sunday 26 September 2021

Wendover / Looking Up

Southwark Borough Architects led by H P Trenton, in a modern style, part of the Aylesbury Estate built in the 1960-70s. Upward view of the south elevation of Wendover; reinforced concrete frame clad in large pre-fabricated concrete panels, a system build known as Jespersen 12M. Now scheduled for demolition. London Borough of Southwark. 
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Saturday 25 September 2021

Frieze Sculpture / 2021

At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden. 

Gravity's / Rainbow

  • Front: 'Environnement de Transchromie Circulaire, 1965-2017' by Carlos Cruz-Diez (b.1923 Caracas, Venezuela - d.2019 Paris).
  • Behind: 'Quantum Shift (Parabolic Monolith Sirius Titanium) 2021' by Gisela Colón (b.1966 Canada, raised Puerto Rico, now LA). 
At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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Friday 24 September 2021

Muamba Grove / 1, 3 & 4

'Muamba Grove 1, 3 & 4', 2019, by Vanessa da Silva (b.1976 São Paulo, Brazil). Steel and fibreglass "unrooted bodies". At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.

Thursday 23 September 2021

Play Sculpture / Noguchi

'Play Sculpture, c. 1965/c. 1980 (fabricated 2021)' by Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, Noguchi Isamu, 1904-1988, USA). Red painted tubular-steel. At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.

Wednesday 22 September 2021

Untitled / 2021

'Untitled 2021' sculpture by José Pedro Croft (b.1957 Portugal). Painted iron and coloured glass. At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden. 
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Transchromie Circulaire / 1965-2017


'Environnement de Transchromie Circulaire, 1965-2017' by Carlos Cruz-Diez (b.1923 Caracas, Venezuela - d.2019 Paris). At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden. 

Tuesday 21 September 2021

Stack Sculpture / Annie Morris

'Stack 9 Ultramarine Blue', 2021, by Annie Morris (b.1978 London, UK). Stacked irregular spheres, painted bronze. At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.

Monday 20 September 2021

Pineapple / Rose Wylie

'Pineapple 2020' sculpture by Rose Wylie (b.1934 Kent, UK). Painted bronze, 3.5m x 1.1m x 1.1m. At the 2021 Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent's Park. London Borough of Camden.
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Sunday 19 September 2021

Lime Kiln / SE5

Octagonal, brick kiln built for the lime works of E.R. Burtt, founded in 1816. At the time this was close to the Grand Surrey Canal. Kilns like this were used to turn limestone into quicklime for use in mortar. Grade II listed. In Burgess Park, London Borough of Southwark. 

55 Wells Way / Tower

Former Church of St George designed by Francis Bedford, 1824, in the Greek Revival style. Staged tower with Doric and Ionic orders. Grade II listed in 1954. Converted to residential in 1994. London Borough of Southwark. 

Saturday 18 September 2021

Gayhurst / Pedway

Southwark Borough Architects led by H P Trenton, in a modern style, part of the Aylesbury Estate built in the 1960-70s. Here showing a pedway ramp detail of Gayhurst, which is scheduled for demolition as part of the controversial regeneration of this large housing estate. London Borough of Southwark. 

Friday 17 September 2021

Woodsford / SE17

Architects: F.O.Hayes, c.1965, for Southwark Metropolitan Borough Council. Residential tower of 14 storeys, 54 dwellings. One of four similar towers clustered around Portland Street. This image taken from Faraday Gardens. London Borough of Southwark. 
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Thursday 16 September 2021

Winch House / SE17

Panter Hudspith Architects, 2017, for Guinness Development and Hills Partnership. One of three housing blocks at Stead St. identified by Southwark Council to re-house residents of the now-demolished Heygate Estate. Photographed from Nursery Row Park, which the southern aspects overlook. London Borough of Southwark. 

Wednesday 15 September 2021

City Island / East

Glen Howells Architects for Ballymore. Easterly view of London City Island. Leamouth, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Tuesday 14 September 2021

Dawsonne House / E14

Glen Howells Architects, 2019, for Ballymore. Looking up at one of the London City Island residential towers. Leamouth, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday 13 September 2021

City Island / ENB

Glen Howells Architects, 2019. View towards the Mulryan Centre for Dance, the new rehearsal space for the English National Ballet. Surrounded by residential towers also designed by GHA. London City Island, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Sunday 12 September 2021

The O2 Arena / 2021

The O2 Arena, formerly the Millennium Dome, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, 1999. Situated on the Greenwich peninsula, here viewed from the north bank of the Thames in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Saturday 11 September 2021

Elektron Tower / E14

Halpern Architects (now Formation Architects), 2008, for Barratts. 25-storey residential tower next to East India DLR station. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Friday 10 September 2021

Old Pump House / E14

Former hydraulic pumping station of 1881-2, built by the Midland Railway Company for what was the company's collier dock and coal-handling depot at Blackwall Yard [www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp624-634 accessed 9 September 2021]. Now a wine warehouse. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Thursday 9 September 2021

Barclays / HSBC

HQs of Barclays and HSBC banks by architects HOK (2005) and Foster + Partners (2002) respectively. The Barclays tower design was reduced from 50 storeys to 31, along with internal changes, as a result of the 9/11 aerial attacks. Viewed from the north end of Poplar Dock, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Wednesday 8 September 2021

Langdale House / SW1V

Architects: Powell and Moya, phase III 1952-57. One of the low-rise residential blocks to the north of Churchill Square. Although not individually listed, it is named as a building of merit in the Conservation Area and the whole Churchill Gardens landscape was Grade II listed in 2020. City of Westminster, London. 

Tuesday 7 September 2021

Accumulator Tower / Churchill Gardens

Architects: Powell and Moya, 1947-50. This 40m+ steel, glass and aluminium tower forms part of the first district heating system in UK. The tower, workshop and pump house are Grade II listed. City of Westminster, London. 
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Monday 6 September 2021

Six Bells / Newdigate

Parts dating from C17, originally timber framed. First licensed in 1783 according to the Newdigate Local History Society. Here viewed from the church. Newdigate, Surrey, UK.
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Sunday 5 September 2021

Lychgate / Newdigate

Church of St Peter's lychgate, with slab roof supported by a carved timber frame. Likely to have originated in late C19, although restored in the 1980s. Newdigate, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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Saturday 4 September 2021

Bedford Towers / BN1

Architects: Seiferts, 1967, hotel and apartments replacing an 1829 hotel destroyed by fire. The hotel on the lower floors is now a Holiday Inn. King's Road, City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex.
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Friday 3 September 2021

Brighton Bandstand / 2021

Designed by Phillip Lockwood, Brighton Borough Surveyor, completed 1884. Renovation in 2009 managed by A B I R Architects. Grade II listed. King's Road, Brighton & Hove City, Sussex, UK. 
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Thursday 2 September 2021

Western Bandstand / Capital

Designed by Phillip Lockwood, Brighton Borough Surveyor, completed 1884. Renovation in 2009 managed by A B I R Architects. Grade II listed. King's Road, Brighton & Hove City, Sussex, UK.
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Wednesday 1 September 2021

Jolly Roger / Brighton

City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.