Serpentine Pavilion 2025 / V

North end section looking-up, trees behind. This year's pavilion designed by Marina Tabassum (b.1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh). Called 'A Capsule in Time', it is constructed of timber and translucent brown polycarbonate panels. By the Serpentine South gallery, City of Westminster, London. 

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Serpentine Pavilion 2025 / IV

North entrances. This year's pavilion designed by Marina Tabassum (b.1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh). Called 'A Capsule in Time', it is constructed of glulam and translucent brown polycarbonate panels. By the Serpentine South, City of Westminster, London. 

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Serpentine Pavilion 2025 / III

Looking north with Ginkgo tree in foreground. This year's pavilion designed by Marina Tabassum (b.1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh). Called 'A Capsule in Time', it is constructed of timber and translucent brown polycarbonate panels. By the Serpentine South, City of Westminster, London. 

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Serpentine Pavilion 2025 / II

South end section, interior looking-up. This year's pavilion designed by Marina Tabassum (b.1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh). Called 'A Capsule in Time', it is constructed of timber and translucent brown polycarbonate panels. By the Serpentine South, City of Westminster, London. 

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Serpentine Pavilion 2025 / I

This year's pavilion designed by Marina Tabassum (b.1969, Dhaka, Bangladesh). Called 'A Capsule in Time', it is constructed of timber and translucent brown polycarbonate panels. By the Serpentine South, City of Westminster, London.

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Similar Triangles / BN3

Hove Lawns beach hut with Kings House in background. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Flight of the Langoustine / BN3

Sculptor: Pierre Diamantopoulo (b.1952 Egypt, now living and working in Sussex, UK). Four life-size bronze figures and steel grid. Installed on the Hove Plinth on 17 September 2023. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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St Nicolas Shoreham / Entrance

Entrance to the church of St Nicolas at Old Shoreham. According to British History Online, in the mid-C12 this doorway replaced the previous entrance in the north wall of the tower. Norman style round arch with carved decorative moldings and pair of cylindrical columns with capitals. St Nicolas Lane, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, UK. 

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St Nicolas / BN43

Grade 1 listed Anglican church in Old Shoreham, close to the river Adur. A site of Saxon origins although significantly rebuilt after the Norman conquest. Of cruciform plan around a central Norman tower. Flint with stone dressings including C12 carvings. Later restoration by the Victorians including the stained glass windows. St Nicolas Lane, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, UK. 

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i360 / 20250609

Architects: Marks Barfield, 2016. 160m-high vertical cable car. Since earlier this year (2025) it is now owned by the hospitality group Nightcap Ltd. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex.

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Café de la Mer / Street Art

Detail of a street art mural by Sean Lyons a.k.a. Glimmertwin. On one of the Kings Road arches next to Café de la Mer. Brighton seafront, Sussex, UK. 

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Boat / Garden

Blue boat gone to seed, outside the Brighton Fishing Museum, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Ferry Inn / BN43

At 1-3 East Street, not nationally listed but described in the Conservation Area appraisal as making a positive contribution to the townscape. A wine / tapas bar in its present incarnation. Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, UK. 

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Footbridge / Shoreham

Architects: Yee Associates, Engineers: Cass Hayward LLP, opened 2013. 214m long footbridge with a pivoting 50m central span. Steel on concrete piles with laminated-glass parapets. For pedestrians and cyclists crossing the river Adur. The bridge is formally known as the Adur Ferry Bridge. Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, UK. 

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St Mary de Haura / NE

View from northeast of the Grade 1 listed St Mary de Haura, founded circa 1103 with much C12 structure remaining. Of Norman and Transitional style using stone, flint, and cobbles. The flying buttresses to the clerestorey are early examples of this structural technique. The funds for the building may have been sourced from the harbour taxes of that era. Church Street, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, UK. 

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St Mary de Haura / BN43

Grade 1 listed church founded c.1103, with much C12 structure remaining. Of Norman and Transitional style using stone, flint, and cobbles. The flying buttresses to the clerestorey are early examples of this structural technique. The funds for the building may have been sourced from the harbour taxes of that era. Church Street, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, UK. 

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Sculpture / Afloat

Artist: Hamish Black (b.1948, living and working in Sussex). Bronze, 2.2 tonne torus as a geometric transformation of the world globe and its major continents. Installed 1998 at the end of the Grade 2 listed East Street groyne which was built in 1867 and now popularly renamed as the Doughnut Groyne. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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i360 / Doughnut Groyne

Vista west from the Palace Pier including the 162m column of Marks Barfield's i360 observation platform and what is now known as the 'Doughnut Groyne' after a bronze torus sculpture was installed. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Palace Pier / Substructure

Beach view of the substructure of Brighton Palace Pier. First constructed 1891-1901, designed by R St George Moore. Grade II* listed. Madeira Drive, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Zipwire Tower / BN2

30m tower with spiral staircase to a platform where two lines provide the longest zipwire rides on the south coast. Established 2017 at Dalton's Bastion, Madeira Drive, City of Brighton & Hove. 

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Lady Liberty / Catman

Stencilled artwork by Catman depicting Lady Liberty and the decline of women's reproductive rights in the USA. Bond Street, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Toucan / The Dorset

Window and Guinness-themed decoration on the west return (in Orange Row) of The Dorset public house at 28 North Road, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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The Duck Inn / BN2

Former Olde Place Hotel and Club, C18 or earlier, Grade 2 listed. Porch is a later addition. 89 High Street, Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove. 

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Rose Cottage / BN2

Built early C19 according to the Grade 2 listing. Façade of coursed cobbles with red-brick dressings, quoins and dentils. Entrance with Doric pilasters. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Windmill / from Kipling Gdns

Rottingdean windmill viewed from Kipling Gardens. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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Pond / Rottingdean

Village pond seen from the south. The house in view is The Elms, built by William Ridge in 1745, rented by Rudyard Kipling from 1897 until 1902. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Whipping Post Lane / BN2

Records show this was called East Lane until 1933. According to the Conservation Area appraisal there was once a village whipping post and stocks located nearby. Buildings date from the C18. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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The Black Horse / BN2

Rendered, timber-framed building thought to be C16 origin, now a public house. Tiled, hipped roof running parallel to High Street. Jettied upper-storey to the south entrance. Grade 2 listed. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Marine Place / Marine Parade

Moderne style building at the corner of Worthing's Marine Place and Marine Parade. Much of the seafront property is Regency or Victorian, so this is probably a 1930s infill or replacement. Unlisted. Worthing, West Sussex, UK. 

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Giant Wheel / Worthing

44m tall Ferris Wheel being installed for the summer season on Worthing seafront. Operated by City Observations Ltd., built by Fabbri Group, Italy. Worthing, Sussex, UK. 

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Dome Cinema / BN11

Grade 2* listed cinema with domed tower, designed by Theophilus Arthur Allen, 1911, in the Edwardian Baroque style. Said to be one of the best five early cinemas to survive in England. Worthing Marine Parade, Sussex, UK. 

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Panel / Worthing Pier

One of 200+ windbreak panels on the pier which have been decorated as part of a project organised by Creative Waves Community Arts. Worthing, West Sussex, UK.

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Pier / Worthing

Designed by Robert Rawlinson, 1862, Grade 2 listed. Fire damaged in 1933, the superstructure was remodelled in a Moderne style. Here viewed at low tide; the Rampion wind farm is just visible on the horizon. Worthing, West Sussex, UK. 

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Mural / Big Beach Café

One of Dan Kitchener's Tokyo murals on the south elevation of the Big Beach Café, near Hove Lagoon. City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Shelter / BN3

One of the Grade 2-listed seafront shelters on Hove's Western Esplanade. Built mid-C19 by Hove Corporation. Painted cast-iron and a decorative flat roof with ball finials and a quatrefoil pierced parapet. City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Argentum / Hove

ECE Architecture for Trinity Homes, 2024. 33 apartments across 5 to 8 storeys. Facing the new Hove Beach Park which has recently opened. 239 Kingsway, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Vauxhall Vent / II

London Transport Architects Department, 1977. Air vent for the Victoria line in a Brutalist style with vertically-ribbed concrete texture. London Borough of Lambeth.

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US Embassy / 2025

Architects: KieranTimberlake, 2018. Sculpted ETFE skin over blast-proof glazing. Nine Elms, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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St Michael / Figurehead

Bronze figure at the prow of St Michael, an ex-North Sea trawler which is now residential. Tideway Dock, Nine Elms, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Riverlight / Vent

Architects: RSHP, 2016. Residential-led, mixed use development on an old industrial estate by the river Thames. Nine Elms, London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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But First / Coffee

Coffee outlet under Grosvenor bridge in the form of a Citroen panel van, with illuminated sign in front window. London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Chelsea Bridge / 20250513

Architects G.Topham Forrest et al of the LCC., 1937, Grade 2 listed in 2008. Self-anchored suspension bridge, here viewed from the London Borough of Wandsworth. 

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Hampton Cottage / May Cottage

Grade 2 listed building of the C18, possibly earlier, comprising two dwellings. Single storey plus attic with dormers. Hipped roof running parallel to High Street. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Prospect Cottage / BN2

Grade 2 listed end-of-terrace house of the C18, two storeys over semi-basement plus attic with dormers. Whitewashed Flemish bond, two-storey bay supported by columns. Blue plaque says Sir Edward Burne-Jones, painter, lived here from 1880-1898. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Arch / Kipling Gardens

Typical flint wall and brick archway dividing the various sections of Kipling Gardens, once the grounds of 'The Elms', a house rented by Rudyard Kipling during the period 1897-1902. All the walls and other structures are Grade 2 listed. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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North End House / BN2

Grade 2 listed house of the C18 with white-painted cobbles at base, black glazed mathematical tiles above. 2 storeys, semi-basement and attic. Doric-style porch to front door. 3-storey wing behind. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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St Margaret / Rottingdean

Nave, tower and chancel are Norman, c.1200, according to the Grade 2* listing. The south aisle by George Gilbert Scott, 1856, when general restoration was also carried out. Stained glass windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones and executed by William Morris. Clergy and choir vestries by Denman & Son, 1974. Structure of flint with stone dressings, tiled roof. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Shelter / The Green

Former outbuilding of The Elms, integrated into the wall surrounding what is now Kipling Gardens. Flint with brick dressings, tiled hipped roof with dormers. This south-facing awning looks out over 'The Green' open space. Included in the Grade 2 listing of the walls and related buildings of Kipling Gardens. Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK.

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Rottingdean Windmill / BN2

Smock mill, erected in 1802 by Thomas Beard, which ground corn for the village of Rottingdean until 1881. Grade 2 listed. Beacon Hill, Rottingdean, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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Kate Langdale / Florist

Next door to Treasure & Trash (see previous photo on my stream), this façade nicely complements its neighbour. I think it's more a floral design studio than a place to buy a bunch of flowers. Bath Street, near Seven Dials, City of Brighton & Hove, UK. 

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