BFI IMAX / 2023

Avery Associates Architects, 1999. Entrance below street level, accessed via pedestrian subways. UK's biggest screen. Waterloo, London Borough of Lambeth.

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Hayward Gallery / 2023

Designed by the GLC Department of Architecture, the Hayward Gallery opened on London's South Bank in 1968. London Borough of Lambeth.

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St Mary le Strand / 2023

Architect: James Gibbs, 1717, in the English Baroque style, Grade I listed. The church now enjoying the benefits of the recent Strand Aldwych pedestrianisation. City of Westminster, London.

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'The World Turned Upside Down' / WC2A

Artist Mark Wallinger, installed outside the LSE’s Saw Swee Hock Student Centre in 2019. 4m globe, inverted from the conventional representation. London Borough of Camden. 

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Victoria House / WC1

Architect: Charles William Long, c.1926-32, for the Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company. Steel frame clad with Portland stone, Grade II listed. Southampton Row, London Borough of Camden.

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Friend at Hand / WC1

The Friend at Hand public house at Herbrand Street, Bloomsbury. Said to date from 1735. London Borough of Camden.

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St George's Gardens / Euterpe

Euterpe the Muse of Instrumental Music. Terracotta figure, one of the nine Muses which decorated the façade of the Apollo Inn (1898) on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Torrington Place. On its demolition in 1961, Anthony Heal presented this statue to St Pancras (Parish) [source: park notice]. London Borough of Camden.

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Tower Bridge / Day

Pool of London seen from the Thames Path in Wapping.

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Day-time version of this one...

Gilbert & George Centre / II

Building conversion by SIRS Architects, opened 2023. Lower gallery, including Anthers 2019. 5a Heneage Street, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

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Gilbert & George Centre / I

Building conversion by SIRS Architects, opened 2023. Upper gallery, including 2019 pieces Date Dance, Rosy, Lion Teeth, Bed-Wetting and Date Stones. Heneage Street, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Dickens Inn / E1W

View of the Dickens Inn across St Katherine Dock East. In background, the Tower Hotel and the Shard. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Shard / from Tower Bridge

Shard, designed by Renzo Piano, 2012, viewed from the southern end of Tower Bridge.

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Square Mile / 20230414

View of the City of London financial district from across the Thames near the Scoop, More London. London Borough of Southwark. 

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Shipwrights Arms / SE1

Grade II listed public house, mid-to-late C19. Curved-corner plan with an unusual caryatid over the main entrance. Tooley Street, London Borough of Southwark.

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Tamoonz / Hawley Mews

Detail of a Hawley Mews mural by Tsakhnakia Tamuna (Tbilisi, Georgia). Camden Town, London Borough of Camden. 

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Camden Lock Village / Catwalks

Recently completed mixed-use, canalside development, including 8 new buildings between 3-9 storeys in height (AHMM). Here a view of the connecting bridges. Camden Town, London Borough of Camden.

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Hawley Lock / Spring

Vista from Camden High Street towards Hawley Lock, London Borough of Camden.

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Somers Town Bridge / N1C

Moxon Architects, 2017. Slender, steel pedestrian bridge spanning the Regent's Canal. London Borough of Camden. 

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'Gasholders' / Coal Drops Yard

Wilkinson Eyre Architects, 2017. Apartments within the cylindrical frames of 3 Victorian gasholders. In front, Victorian warehouses and train viaduct conversion to retail by Heatherwick Studio, 2018. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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22 Handyside / N1C

Coffey Architects, 2020, for Argent. Office building with patterned rainscreen and sawtooth roof. King's Cross, London Borough of Camden.

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Ice Wharf / 2023

Architect: Tchaik Chassay, 1998. Apartments overlooking Regent's Canal and Battle Bridge Basin, steel framed with concrete floors sitting on deep bored piles. London Borough of Camden. 

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Anna Laurini / III

Street art in Castlehaven Road, by Anna Laurini (b. Italy). London Borough of Camden. 

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Buckhill Lodge / 2023

Built 1858 according to wall plaque, originally as a park lodge. White brick in a picturesque Tudor-influenced style, Grade II listed. Near Westbourne Gate to the north of the Buckhill area of Kensington Gardens. Behind, the high-rise Royal Lancaster hotel by Seiferts. City of Westminster, London.

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Pump House / 2023

Portland-stone pump house, c.1861, in Italianate style. Originally housing a steam engine to operate the fountains, the square tower concealing a chimney. Called Pavilion of The Fountains in the Grade II listing. Italian Gardens, Kensington Gardens, City of Westminster, London.

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'The Arch' / 2023

Travertine arch by Henry Moore (1898-1986), presented by the sculptor to the nation in 1980. The stones weigh 37 tonnes and the piece is 6m high. Restoration completed 2012. Kensington Gardens, City of Westminster, London. 

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Serpentine North / II

Zaha Hadid Architects, 2009-13. Here showing the western extension with glass-fibre woven textile membrane. West Carriage Drive, City of Westminster, London.

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Serpentine / North

Zaha Hadid Architects, 2009-13. Here showing the western extension with glass-fibre woven textile membrane. West Carriage Drive, City of Westminster, London. 

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Serpentine / South

Architect: James Grey West, 1934, in a Neo-Georgian style. Now an art gallery and Grade II listed. Kensington Gardens, City of Westminster, London.

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Chelsea Fire Station / 2023

Architect: GLC Special Works Department, 1964. Modern style fire station at 264 Kings Road, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 

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