Thursday, 20 August 2015

Hotel Rex / Weymouth

Built c.1795 as a house for the Duke of Clarence (later William IV) and now a hotel. Three storeys plus attic and basement with smooth ashlar Portland stone cladding to front. Full-width balcony to first floor with wrought-iron balustrade. Grade II listed. Weymouth, Dorset. 


Wednesday, 19 August 2015

28-29 East St / Weymouth

At corner of East Street and Governors Lane, mid C19, Grade II listed. Shop-front accessible through separate corner entrance, with arched sash windows above. Cast-iron window guards fitted to the East St.-facing windows. Weymouth, Dorset. 

The Royal Oak / Custom House Quay

Early C19 public house, listed Grade II as an "externally complete example of a characteristically Late Georgian type of public house" Also visible is the landmark clock-tower and cupola of St Mary's church. Weymouth, Dorset.

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Maiden Street Methodist Church / remains

Detail of Maiden Street Methodist Church by architects Foster and Wood in a Lombardic Romanesque Revival style, 1866, gutted by fire 2002. Showing the 4-bay arcade on the front elevation. Grade II* listed and still interesting in its current state as a shell supported by interior scaffolding. Weymouth, Dorset.

MV Freedom / Weymouth

Motor vessel owned by a charity that provides people with disabilities the opportunity of a trip to sea, with visits to the Jurassic coast. The boat can carry up to twelve passengers including six wheelchair users. Weymouth, Dorset. 

Jigsaw Shop / Weymouth

Workshop of a business making bespoke hand-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles and similar products. Near Brewers Quay, Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset.

Monday, 17 August 2015

Custom House Quay / from Cove Passage

Weymouth, Dorset. 

Seagull Cafe / Weymouth

"Weymouth's Oldest Fish & Chip Shop" :) 10 Trinity Street, Weymouth, Dorset.

The Prince of Wales / Weymouth

Public House comprising an early C19 single-bay house joined to a late C19 corner building. Interesting curved panel front doors with slim Doric columns each side. Two oriel windows on the Park Road elevation. Grade II listed in 1974 and for sale at time of photograph. 47-49 Park Street, Weymouth, Dorset. 


Custom House Quay / Weymouth

Houses 15 and 16, on the left, are Georgian and Grade II listed. They are of two storeys with mansard attics; bay-windows have been added to the first floor. These indicate the scale of earlier buildings on the quayside. During the early Victorian era there was a revival of the harbour district with much residential and commercial development. Weymouth, Dorset. 

Sunday, 16 August 2015

Hope Congregational Chapel / Weymouth

Showing a lower detail of exterior façade, designed in a neo-classical style using cream stone ashlar on a limestone plinth. Panel inscription reads: "ERECTED 1822 RE-ERECTED 1862". Listed Grade II. Trinity Street, Weymouth, Dorset. 

Saturday, 15 August 2015

Newton's Cove / wall and shore (2 pics)

Landscape architects: Enplan. Portland stone bas-reliefs by the side of a promenade incorporated into the 2004 coastal defence scheme at Newton’s Cove.
Part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, the cove's slopes and foreshore are also a Site of Special Scientific Interest owing to a rare geological formation of clay, sands and grits known as the Nothe series. Weymouth, Dorset.
(Both pics CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Baptist Chapel / Weymouth

By George Welsford, builder, 1814, with original frontage of "two matching houses". Given this Roman-Doric façade in 1859. Hipped slate roof hidden by pediment. Listed Grade II. Bank Buildings, Weymouth, Dorset. 

Weymouth / from Jurassic Skyline

Vista including parts of Weymouth harbour and beach from the Jurassic Skyline observation tower. Weymouth, Dorset.

Friday, 14 August 2015

Jurassic Skyline / observation tower

Constructed in 2012 in time for the Olympic sailing events, the tower is 53m tall with a rotating gondola. It is now known as the Jurassic Skyline tower. Inevitably controversial and likened by a local to a factory chimney, it was constructed in 8 months at a privately-funded cost of £3.5M. Weymouth, Dorset.
(Both pics CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

St Stephen's / from New Court

Grade I listed Church of St Stephen's, Walbrook, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, 1679. Seen from the podium of New Court (Rothschild HQ), designed by OMA, 2011. City of London. 

Bank of England / Aug 2015

Part of façade of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street. "Largely rebuilt by Sir Herbert Baker in 1921 to 37. Listed for greatly altered screen-wall by Sir John Soane, late C18 to early C19 and for various elements of old building, by Soane and by Sir Robert Taylor (2nd half C18) which were reconstituted in something like their original form within the new structure." (British Listed Buildings). Grade I listed. City of London. 

Monday, 10 August 2015

Underground roundel / Lombard St

Roundel at the Lombard Street entrance to Bank Underground station. A form of the roundel started to be used c.1908 and was refined into a Company trademark c.1917 by typographer Edward Johnston. It was Charles Holden who later fully incorporated the roundel into station architecture. City of London. 

Leadenhall Building / east

Looking up at the east elevation of the Leadenhall Building — aka 'The Cheesegrater' — designed by RSHP, 2014. Steel and glass wedge, 225m tall, in the familiar structural expressionist style of this practice. City of London. 

Sunday, 9 August 2015

West Pier / i360

Left, the remains of the West Pier, made of cast-iron and designed by Eugenius Birch, 1866. Right, some of the rolled-steel "cans" made for the i360 observation tower. The shorter cylinders have thicker walls for the lower stages. They are assembled bottom-up using a jacking system and finally clad in an aluminium veil. i360 designed by Marks & Barfield, expected completion summer 2016. City of Brighton & Hove. 

Saturday, 8 August 2015

i360 / Aug 2015

Work-in-progress on the i360 observation tower. By the time the final steel cylinder (or "can") has been inserted, the column will be 162m high — the tallest structure in Sussex. Architects: Marks & Barfield, the couple that designed the London Eye. Completion expected summer 2016. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex.
Two of the posters displayed at the construction site of the i360, showing an artist's impression of the finished tower and a comparison of tower heights. "The world's tallest moving observation tower" is scheduled to complete in summer 2016. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex. 

(both pics CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Thursday, 6 August 2015

Newbury Park Station / I, II & III

Tube-bus interchange building in the Modern style by architect Oliver Hill (1887-1968), designed in 1937 but built after WW2 in 1949. Barrel vault consisting of seven concrete arches supporting a copper-clad roof. Grade II listed and also a recipient of a Festival of Britain Award for Merit in 1951. London Borough of Redbridge. 
(All pics CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Pointe North / from Glengall Bridge

Seifert Architects 1988-90, constructed over part of the Inner Millwall Dock. At Greenwich View Place, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.


Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Canary Wharf DLR station / 2015

Architects: GEC-Mowlem 1991. Six platforms serving three DLR tracks. Soaring elliptical roof of steel and glass. Seen from south in this image. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Baltimore Tower / Aug 2015

Work-in-progress on Baltimore Tower, 4/Aug/2015. Architects: SOM, completion due 2016. Many apartments already sold off-plan to overseas investors. Isle of Dogs, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Old Dr Butler's Head / Masons' Ave

Sign of public house named after William Butler (1535–1617), court physician to James I, medical empiricist and serious drinker. In Masons' Avenue, the narrow street where the Masons' Livery Company had its hall from 1463 to 1865. City of London.


Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Vents / Exchange House

Architects: SOM, 1990. Detail of the Exchange House building-bridge hybrid which spans the railway tracks just north of Liverpool Street station, City of London. 

Monday, 3 August 2015

White Horse / Exchange Square

One of the wall panels defining the frontage of the White Horse public house. Broadgate development, City of London.

1a Stothard Place / EC2

Seen from Spital Yard, late C17 with much renovation over the years, previously named 7 Spital Yard. Plaque says "In this house Susanna Annesley mother of John Wesley was born January 20th 1669" Listed Grade II in 1950. Spitalfields, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Shepard Fairey / Grey Eagle Street

Street art of 2012 by Shepard Fairey (b.USA 1970). London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Saturday, 1 August 2015

Gilbert & George / Brick Lane

Artists Gilbert Prousch (left) and George Passmore — known as Gilbert & George — in Brick Lane, 1/Aug/2015. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Rose & Crown / SW19

Parts date back to early C17 with various extensions and modifications over the years. Once a coaching inn, it is now a pub and hotel. 55 High Street, Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton.