Electric Blvd / Vista

View of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s Battersea Power Station (1930s/50s), now restored by WilkinsonEyre. Viewed from Electric Boulevard, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Prospect Place / from Electric Blvd

Architects: Gehry Partners, 2022. White-finished residential development alongside the re-purposed Battersea Power Station, viewed from Electric Boulevard. London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Thamesmead / Underpass Art

Street art mural at the Eastern Way / A2041 intersection. London Borough of Bexley. 

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Beer / Football

Rework of Juvenal's and Orwell's satirical sayings. Perhaps today could be "Give them Deliveroo and Social Media..." On an overpass near Southmere, Thamesmead, London Borough of Bexley. 

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Lakeside Centre / Detail

Greater London Council Departments of Architecture & Planning, circa 1968. Concrete frame with some brick infill. Renovated in 2019, Architecture00. Situated on the north-west edge of Southmere Lake. Thamesmead South, London Borough of Bexley. 

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Lakeside Centre / 2024

Greater London Council Departments of Architecture & Planning, circa 1968. Concrete frame with some brick infill. Situated on the north-west edge of Southmere Lake. Thamesmead South, London Borough of Bexley. 

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Thamesmead Highrise / 2024

Oakenholt, Trewsbury, Penton and a glimpse of Osney 12-storey houses designed by the Greater London Council Departments of Architecture & Planning, c.1968. Concrete frames with pre-cast panels. Southmere Lake, Thamesmead South, London Borough of Bexley.

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Former Odeon / Woolwich

Architect: George Coles, 1937, in a streamline Art Deco style. Continued as the Odeon cinema until 1983 after which it became the independent Coronet cinema. Discontinued as a cinema in 1999 and now a church of some kind. Grade II listed. Woolwich, London Borough of Greenwich. 

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Woolwich / Ferry

Ro-ro ferry Dame Vera Lynn, built 2018 by Remontowa in Gdańsk, Poland. There are a pair of these ships which ferry vehicles and foot passengers back-and-forth across the Thames. Free of charge to the public since 1889. 

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Woolwich Tunnel / Entrance

Engineer: Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, 1910-12. Brick rotunda, north entrance to the Woolwich Pedestrian Tunnel. Grade II listed. Pier Road, North Woolwich, London Borough of Newham.

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Steam Hammer / 1888

"This steam hammer came originally from the blacksmith's shop in the Royal Albert dock works of R.H.Green and Silley Wier Ltd., shipbuilders and repairers. Their works stood on the south side at the west (London) end of the Royal Albert dock. This site is now covered by the London City Airport buildings" [plaque dated 1994]. Built in 1888 by Harvey & Co of Glasgow, it was moved to its current location in Royal Victoria Gardens in 1994. London Borough of Newham.

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Woolwich Reach / E16

BPTW Architects, 2021, for Notting Hill Genesis and Higgins. 75 'affordable'/private dwellings and some commercial. On the site of the former Royal Pavilion Hotel. Viewed from Royal Victoria Gardens, North Woolwich, London Borough of Newham.

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Queensland House / E16

20-storey tower comprising 73 dwellings, commissioned in the mid-1960s by the LCC, built by Bernard Sunley & Sons. One of three similar towers built in North Woolwich, London Borough of Newham. 

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Transformation House / 2024

Grade II* listed former Granada cinema designed by Cecil Masey, H R Horner and Leslie Norton, 1937. The rounded corner said to be inspired by contemporary Dutch modernist work. St John's Hill, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Patchwork Bridge / II

Northeast side of a bridge over the railway at John Archer Way, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Waterfowl / Wandsworth

Early Autumn at the Wandsworth Common lake. London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Sibirica / 2024

Water sculpture by William Pye (b.1938 UK). Bronze, 1999. Behind is a neo-Jacobean belvedere on an arched conversion (J.Browne mid-C19) from earlier stables and coach house. In the Iris Garden, Holland Park, London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. 

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Design Museum Atrium / II

Former Grade II* listed Commonwealth Institute designed by Sir Robert Matthew (RMJM), opened in 1963. Refurbished by John Pawson et al., 2016. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 

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Tri-wall / Design Museum

'Fables for our Time' by architecture and design studio Space Popular (Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellbergin) in collaboration with architectural historian Shumi Bose, 2024. Implemented as a 15m triptych formed by 176 rotating prisms illustrating environmental urgencies. This face representing bee colonies. Level 2 of the Design Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.

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Tri-wall / Detail

Detail of the new Tri-wall display at the Design Museum. 'Fables for our Time' by architecture and design studio Space Popular (Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellbergin) in collaboration with architectural historian Shumi Bose. 

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Design Museum Interior / 2024

Former Grade II* listed Commonwealth Institute designed by Sir Robert Matthew (RMJM), opened in 1963. Refurbished by John Pawson et al., 2016. Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London. 

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Head of Invention / Paolozzi

Bronze sculpture of 1989 by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, (1924-2005) Scotland. Outside the Design Museum at Kensington High Street, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, London.

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No. 2 Pond / Hampstead Heath

Situated in the lower part of Hampstead Heath near Pryor's Field. The South Hill Park houses behind were built 1871-75 by Joseph Pickett. The Heath is in the London Borough of Camden although owned and managed by the City of London Corporation.

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No. 1 Pond / Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath's southernmost pond. The South Hill Park houses behind were built 1871-75 by Joseph Pickett. London Borough of Camden. 

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Altitude / E16

New offices located at Lascars Avenue, part of the first phase of the Royal Albert Quay mixed-use development.  The project was master planned by Farrells, but I think it's now cancelled and most of the current buildings are empty. Another Boris Johnson fiasco. London Borough of Newham.

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LDE UTC / Colonnade

Architects: Scott Brownrigg, 2017. The London Design and Engineering UTC is to the west of the UEL Docklands campus. A University Technical College specialising in preparing students for careers in design and engineering. London Borough of Newham. 

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UEL / Trailblazer

Seating sculpture outside the library at UEL's Docklands Campus. London Borough of Newham. 

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UEL / Ailsa House

Edward Cullinan Architects Ltd., 1996-99, student residences facing the Royal Albert Dock. Ailsa House, University of East London Docklands Campus, London Borough of Newham. 

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Felix / Jamilla

Edward Cullinan Architects Ltd., 1996-99, student residences facing the Royal Albert Dock. Here, Felix House on left and Jamilla House. University of East London Docklands Campus, London Borough of Newham. 

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