Images George Rex: June 2023

Friday, 30 June 2023

Hope St / from Town Bridge

Weymouth's Hope Street seen from the Town Bridge, Dorset.

Thursday, 29 June 2023

The T-Shop / DT4

House with shop (11 & 11A Trinity St), early to mid C19 according to Grade II listing. Two storeys plus attic with dormer. Simple Doric doorcase to house. Weymouth, Dorset.

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

'Moonshiner' / DT4

Detail of a 2022 mural by Ivy Langley, inspired by 'A Smuggler’s Song' by Rudyard Kipling. Part of the Weymouth mural trail. Near the Red Lion, Weymouth, Dorset.

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Rendezvous / DT4

Formerly the Anchor, near the Town Bridge. 49 St Thomas Street, Weymouth, DT4 8AW, Dorset, UK.

Monday, 26 June 2023

The Dolphin / DT4

Victorian public house in Park Street with corner entrance and name-sign above. Weymouth, Dorset.

Sunday, 25 June 2023

Nothe Parade / DT4

Terrace of Georgian houses on Nothe Parade, dating from mid-C18 to early C19. Grade II listed. Weymouth, Dorset.

Saturday, 24 June 2023

Flaky / DT4

Weymouth central beach, Dorset, UK.

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Friday, 23 June 2023

Oliveto / DT4

Original architect: V.J.Venning, 1939, in the Art Deco style. Regrettably, most of the structure out to sea was demolished in 1986 due to the cost of maintenance. Weymouth, Dorset.

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces / 2023

Installation by Tomás Saraceno (b.1973, Argentina) outside the Serpentine Gallery. Full title: 'Cloud Cities: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces 2023'. City of Westminster, London.

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

This year's architect: Lina Ghotmeh, b.1980 in Beirut Lebanon, now in Paris France. Circular timber structure, pleated roof with central oculus, wall panels with leaf-like cut-outs. By the Serpentine Gallery, City of Westminster, London.

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Monday, 19 June 2023

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 / III & IV

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Sunday, 18 June 2023

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 / II

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Saturday, 17 June 2023

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 / I

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Hermitage Wharf / Vista

No wharf any more, but there are memorial gardens, community moorings, and a good view of Tower Bridge and the Shard. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Friday, 16 June 2023

Doorway / Wapping High St

Foundation stone (lower right) indicates built 1873 with the architect possibly Charles Duncan. Part of what was originally the north block of St John's Wharves warehouses. With vermiculated voussoirs and keystone. Grade II listed. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

37 Wapping Wall / E1W

Dated 1891, was once the house of the Superintendent of the London Hydraulic Power Station. Grade II listed. Red brick with stepped gables and a lot of ivy. Wapping. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Thursday, 15 June 2023

Shadwell Basin / Housing

Architects: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard & Wright for the LDDC, 1986-8. Housing known as Newlands Quay, Maynards Quay and Peartree Lane, all Grade II listed in 2018 as 'an urbane and imaginative residential group in the Post-Modernist idiom'. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

St Paul's / Shadwell

Designed by John Walters, 1821. Grade II* listed. Viewed from the King Edward Memorial Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Building B2 / 6a Architects

Building B2 at the Design District North Greenwich, by 6a Architects, 2022. Concrete frame, four storeys, corrugated rainscreen with large diamond-shaped windows. Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

Monday, 12 June 2023

Building D2 / Big Arrow

Mole Architects, 2022, in the Design District of North Greenwich. Studios and workshops with an iridescent green cladding. Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

Sunday, 11 June 2023

D2 Building / Window

Mole Architects, 2022, in the Design District of North Greenwich. Here showing the effect of a dichroic glass fin projecting beside a window. Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.

Saturday, 10 June 2023

Elephant & Castle / Mid Century Modern

LCC Tower designed by London County Council, 1964; exterior refurbishment: BPA Architecture, 2021. Faraday Memorial designed by Rodney Gordon, 1961. Grade II listed. Elephant & Castle, London Borough of Southwark.

Friday, 9 June 2023

Faraday Memorial / 2023

Grade II listed sculpture completed 1961, designed by the celebrated Brutalist architect Rodney Gordon (1933-2008). Clad with stainless-steel dished panels and appearing to be suspended from a core yoke, alluding to Michael Faraday's discoveries in electromagnetic induction. Appropriately, the sculpture actually does house a transformer for electrical supply to the Northern Line. Elephant & Castle, London Borough of Southwark.

Thursday, 8 June 2023

Metropolitan Tabernacle / SE1

Corinthian portico of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, a Reformed Baptist church at the Elephant & Castle. The portico survives from a reconstruction by Searle and Hayes, after fire of 1898, of W.W.Pocock's church of 1859-61. Grade II listed. London Borough of Southwark.

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Portrait / by Damitta

Portrait in Hawley Street by Damitta, a female street artist from Spain. Camden Town, London Borough of Camden.

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Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Camden Lock Village / Bridges

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

Monday, 5 June 2023

Kentish Town Road / Bridge

Bridge 25 over the Regent's Canal carrying the Kentish Town Road. London Borough of Camden.

Sunday, 4 June 2023

Lawfords Wharf / 2023

Architects: JTP, 2003. Residential development on a former builder's yard, next to the Regent's Canal. London Borough of Camden.

Saturday, 3 June 2023

Water Tower / St Pancras Hospital

Water tower constructed 1939 for St Pancras Hospital. Granary Street, London Borough of Camden.

Friday, 2 June 2023

Coroner's Court / St Pancras

Purpose-built coroner's court of 1886, designed in a Gothic Revival style by Frederick Eggar. Grade II listed. London Borough of Camden.

Thursday, 1 June 2023

St Pancras Lock / 2023

Lock built 1819 as part of the Regent's Canal. The terracotta coloured building of 2016 is called Tapestry Apartments, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. To the left is Onyx Apartments designed by Powell Dobson, 2018. London Borough of Camden.