Images George Rex: January 2023

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Latinos / Allen Gardens

Street art in Allen Gardens, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday, 30 January 2023

St Magnus House / 2023

Architects: R Seifert and Partners, 1978-81. Eleven-storey office building facing the Thames near London Bridge. Viewed from the Queen's Walk in Southwark.

Saturday, 28 January 2023

The Anchor / SE1

Grade II listed public house built mid-to-late C18. Drinking establishments are thought to have occupied this site for 800 years. Bankside, London Borough of Southwark.

Friday, 27 January 2023

Grants Quay Wharf / EC3R

Grants Quay Wharf seen across the river Thames from the Queen's Walk in the London Borough of Southwark.

Thursday, 26 January 2023

Architects: Frankl and Luty, 2000. Two stories built on an existing Thames jetty 45m offshore. Glass, zinc and green oak cladding. Near Greenwich Millennium Village, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Alamaro Lodge / Faraday Lodge

Erskine Tovatt Architects, master-planning; EPR Architects, production, c.2003. Greenwich Millennium Village, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

IFS Cloud / Cable Car

The cable car between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks now in the livery of its new sponsor. North Greenwich, London.

Monday, 23 January 2023

Building D2 / Design District

Mole Architects, 2022. Studios and workshops with an iridescent green cladding. North Greenwich, London.

Sunday, 22 January 2023

Headless Nude / Damien Hirst

One of two female sculptures set in niches at the corners of the A3 building in the Design District of North Greenwich. David Kohn Architects, 2022. Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

Saturday, 21 January 2023

Sir Henry Tate Circle / 2023

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, 2016. RIBA London Award 2017 and RIBA National Award 2017. Spiral staircase named after the Tate's original benefactor. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

Friday, 20 January 2023

Aggregate / The Tanks

Rugged wall detail of what was Bankside power station's oil tanks, now part of the Tate Modern. Herzog and de Meuron's 2016 refurbishment left much of the raw concrete untouched, although this polished aggregate infill looks like an intervention. London Borough of Southwark.

Thursday, 19 January 2023

The Tanks / Wall

Wall detail of what was Bankside Power Station's oil tanks, now part of the Tate Modern. Herzog and de Meuron's 2016 refurbishment retained the stains, marks and discoloration of the raw concrete. London Borough of Southwark.

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Spiral Stairs / Blavatnik Bldg

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, 2016. View of the spiral staircase incorporated into the repurposing of the old power station switch house for the Tate Modern. London Borough of Southwark.

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Brain Forest Quipu / Cecilia Vicuña

Installation by Cecilia Vicuña (b.1948, Chile) at the Turbine Hall, 27m high (one of two) woven organic materials. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

Monday, 16 January 2023

NT / Grasses

Ornamental grasses on one of the terraces of the National Theatre, South Bank, London Borough of Lambeth.

Saturday, 14 January 2023

Execution Dock / E1W

Thames vista from Execution Dock, with the towers of Canary Wharf in distance. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Thursday, 12 January 2023

HCM / Wapping

View of Hermitage Community Moorings, a cooperative mooring on the Thames at Wapping, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.