Images George Rex: February 2022

Sunday, 27 February 2022

St Augustine Watling Street / Tower

Wren tower restored after WW2 and incorporated into St Paul's Cathedral Choir School. Spire designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, his drawings used by Paul Paget for the rebuilding. City of London.

Saturday, 26 February 2022

St Mary-le-Bow / EC2

Design by Christopher Wren, 1670s, steeple 1680. Major restoration after WW2. Grade I listed. 54 Bow Lane, City of London.

Friday, 25 February 2022

Riverbank House / Seal House

2 Swan Lane designed by EPR and David Walker Architects, 2010. 1 Swan Lane designed by William Holford & Partners, 1978. City of London.

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Dance Porch / Door

Architect: George Dance the Younger, 1788-90, in an eclectic Gothic style. Guildhall, City of London.

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Guildhall / West Ambulatory

Richard Gilbert Scott, 1970-75. Modern style cloister joining the Great Hall to the West Wing. The coffered-canopies and columns are made of polished concrete. Grade II listed.

Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Bank of England / Feb 2022

Largely rebuilt to the design of Sir Herbert Baker in 1921-37, although there are some remaining elements of the earlier building by Sir John Soane. Grade I listed. City of London.

Monday, 21 February 2022

Architects: William Holford & Partners, 1978, offices in the Brutalist style. Planning permission granted in 2019 to demolish and replace with a new building by Eric Parry Architects, providing 13,000 sq.m. of offices plus restaurant and roof garden. City of London.

Sunday, 20 February 2022

Barbican Wallside / II

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, early 1970s. Grade II listed. Wallside highwalk vista. Barbican Estate, City of London.

Saturday, 19 February 2022

Barbican Wallside / I

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, early 1970s. Grade II listed. Showing Wallside pedway as it bridges the lake. Barbican Estate, City of London.

Friday, 18 February 2022

30 St Mary Axe / 2022

Architects: Foster & Partners inc. Ken Shuttleworth, 2003. A.k.a. the Swiss Re Building and the Gherkin. In foreground, the Church of St Andrew Undershaft and Fitzwilliam House. City of London.

Thursday, 17 February 2022

Monument Building / Façade

MAKE architects, 2016. Looking up at south façade which has a decorative brise soleil made with twisted ribbons of anodised aluminium. 11-19 Monument Street, City of London.

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

St Magnus House / 2022

Architects: R Seifert and Partners, 1978-81. Eleven-storey office building facing the Thames near London Bridge. City of London.

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Caledonian Park / Clock Tower

Architect: John Bunstone Bunning, 1855, in Italianate style using Portland stone, cast iron and slate for roof. Height 51.5m, Grade II* listed. This is all that remains of one of London's largest livestock markets. London Borough of Islington.

Monday, 14 February 2022

Shepherd House / York Way Estate

McMorran & Whitby architects, c.1968, for the City of London Corporation. The residential block's name refers to when the land previously held sheep pens for the Metropolitan Cattle Market. London Borough of Islington.

Sunday, 13 February 2022

Kinefold House / York Way Estate

McMorran & Whitby architects, c.1968, for the City of London Corporation. Residential building owned and run by the Corporation of London, within the London Borough of Islington.

Saturday, 12 February 2022

Maiden Lane Estate / IV

Architects: Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth for Camden Council. Maiden Lane Estate phase 2 1978-83. London Borough of Camden.

Friday, 11 February 2022

'Temenos' / Liliane Lijn

Magic Circle sculpture made of painted steel poles, painted galvanised base ring and LEDs. By Liliane Lijn (b.1939, NYC). Winter installation at Granary Square, London Borough of Camden.

Thursday, 10 February 2022

'Shutter Telegraph' / Amalia Pica

Sculpture by Amalia Pica (b.1978 Argentina) based on a semaphore system invented by Lord George Murray in 1795. Part of the King’s Cross Project of art commissions. London Borough of Camden.

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Kings Cross Lightwall / III

Attractive 90m pedestrian tunnel between the King's Cross/St Pancras underground station and an exit at One Pancras Square. Architects: Allies & Morrison, LED lightwall concept by Speirs & Major with design and implementation by The Light Lab. London Borough of Camden.

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Peckham Library / 2022

Architects: Will Alsop & Jan Störmer, 1999. This copper-clad public building won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK's most prestigious architecture award, for the year 2000. London Borough of Southwark.

Sunday, 6 February 2022

Peckham Library / Detail

Architects: Will Alsop & Jan Störmer, 1999. RIBA Stirling Prize. Photo of 2022. London Borough of Southwark.

Saturday, 5 February 2022

Caryatids / Henry Poole

Sculptor: Henry Poole, 1897. Originally supporting the entablature over the entrance to Rotherhithe Old Town Hall. Relocated to Southwark Park in 2011. London Borough of Southwark.

Friday, 4 February 2022

Bandstand / Southwark Park

Reproduction bandstand based on an historic one on Clapham Common. Manufactured by bespoke ironwork specialist Dorothea Restorations. The park's original 1861 bandstand was melted-down during WW2. London Borough of Southwark.

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Cinnabar Wharf / 2022

Andrew Cowan Architects, three nautical-style buildings comprising the Cinnabar Wharf development of 2002.

Wednesday, 2 February 2022

Tower Bridge / Sunrise

Architects: Horace Jones and George D. Stevenson, engineer: John Wolfe Barry, opened 1894. Gothic revival style using concrete, steel and masonry. Grade I listed. Photographed in January 2022 from London Borough of Southwark.

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Square Mile / Sunrise

View from One London Bridge towards the City of London financial district, at sunrise.