Friday, 15 February 2019

Leathermarket Gdns / SE1

Northwesterly view from Leathermarket Gardens, showing parts of Guinness Court (1900), Guy's Hospital (1974) and The Shard (2012). London Borough of Southwark. 
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Thursday, 14 February 2019

Ship and Mermaid Row / SE1

Street in Bermondsey presumably named after the Ship and Mermaid public house which used to be at Snow's Fields. The street name is mentioned in Lockie's Topography of London, printed in 1810. London Borough of Southwark.
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Camden Lock Village / NW1

Architects: AHMM, 2019. Eight new buildings in the heart of Camden Town, at the old Hawley Wharf site. London Borough of Camden. 
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Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Canons Leisure Centre / Mitcham

Architects: Building Design Partnership, 1984. London Borough of Merton. 

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Bandstand / Victoria Park

A late C19 bandstand had to be demolished — I believe a 1940s one as well. According to Historic England this is a 1990s replacement on the same site. It hosts a summer season of music. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Burdett-Coutts Fountain / E9

Architect: H A Darbyshire, 1862, in a Victorian Gothic style "with Moorish touches", acccording to the Grade II* listing. In Victoria Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday, 11 February 2019

Pavilion Café / Victoria Park

Complementing the park's Victorian origins but built in the 1990s by Lengard Ltd. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Sunday, 10 February 2019

Pagoda Detail / Victoria Park

Reconstruction of the original 1842 pagoda featured at a Hyde Park exhibition of things Chinese. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Pennethorne Bridge / Victoria Park

Architect: Sir James Pennethorne (1801–1871), although unrealized in his time. Finally completed during C21 improvements to the park. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 
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Pagoda / Victoria Park

Restoration of a Chinese Pagoda, the original which was re-sited here in 1847 following an exhibition of Chinese artifacts in central London. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Friday, 8 February 2019

'Skyscraper' / Ernő Bartha

Hay sculpture on the West Lake of Victoria Park. By Ernő Bartha (b. 1958 Romania), commissioned by the Romanian Cultural Institute with the support of Tower Hamlets Council. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Thursday, 7 February 2019

Velletri House / E2

Architects: Skinner, Bailey and Lubetkin, 1964. Part of the Cranbrook Estate, designed by ex-Tecton architects. Viewed across the Regent's Canal. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

France House / QMUL

Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley, 2004. Clad in TECU® PATINA copper. France House forms part of the Westfield Student Village at Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus. Showing the east elevation which faces the Regent's Canal and Mile End Park. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Suttons Wharf / E2

• The long building is One Housing, designed by Stock Woolstencroft LLP, 2008. 

• Centre, 17-storey building known as Grand Regent Tower, designed by Burwell Deakins, 2014.

By the Regent's Canal, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Monday, 4 February 2019

Art Pavilion / Mile End

Gardner Stewart Architects, c.2000. Earth-sheltered building with glazed frontage towards lake. Mile End Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Sunday, 3 February 2019

Mile End Park / Terrace Garden

Part of a linear park over a mile in length in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Guardian Angels / Mile End

Architect: F.A. Walters, 1903, in revival of the Perpendicular Gothic. Grade II listed. The Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Church replaced an 1868 mission chapel on the site. Mile End Road, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Saturday, 2 February 2019

Blackwall Basin / Canary Wharf

London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Friday, 1 February 2019

Manhattan Plaza / E14

Architects: Barton Willmore for Telford Homes, 2018. Residential redevelopment of a disused industrial site in Poplar. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Blackwall Reach / E14

Joint architects: Metropolitan Workshop and Haworth Tompkins. The ongoing banishment of Brutalism and, I'd imagine, much of the social structure that existed here. The remaining Robin Hood Gardens block seen here will be demolished in due course. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

One Park Drive / 20190128

Unusual 3-sectioned tower by Herzog & de Meuron, completing in 2020. Wood Wharf residential development, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Wardian / London

Glenn Howells Architects for EcoWorld Ballymore. Work-in-progress on two residential towers of 55 and 50 storeys above podium. The wrap-around balconies provide for garden plants outside the 766 apartments. Marsh Wall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Dollar Bay / IV

Architects: SimpsonHaugh, 2017. Residential tower at the east end of Canary Wharf's south dock. London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 

22 Bishopsgate / 20190128

Progress on Twentytwo as of 28/Jan/2019. PLP Architecture for Lipton Rogers Developments / AXA Real Estate. 62 floors above ground, 278.2m / 913ft, completion this year. Photographed from the south bank of the Thames in London Borough of Southwark. 

Monday, 28 January 2019

'Flower Tree' / Zurab Tsereteli

Flower Tree - 2018 by Zurab Tsereteli (b.1934 Tbilisi, Georgia). 2.6m x 1.2m., blooms and leaves of vitreous enamel on copper. Currently on display at the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. 

Sunday, 27 January 2019

St Jude's / SE24

Build architect: E C Robins, 1868. Last used for worship in 1975 and sold freehold in 1980. Now occupied by Mark Allen Group (publishers) [info. source: southwark.anglican.org]. London Borough of Lambeth. 

Saturday, 26 January 2019

Brockwell Park / Modern

• Front: Lido designed by Harry Rowbotham and T L Smithson in the Moderne style for the LCC, 1937. Grade II listed.

• Back: Park View House and Herne Hill House, built 1968 by Lambeth Council.

London Borough of Lambeth. 

Friday, 25 January 2019

Barbican 2019 / VI

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, 1982. AHMM interior refurbishments. Theatre entrance and shop. Pick-hammered concrete walls. Grade II listed. Barbican Centre, City of London. 

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Barbican 2019 / V

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. The Barbican Centre opened in 1982 and is the largest performing arts venue in Europe. Showing the west return at podium level. Grade II listed. Barbican Estate, City of London. 

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Barbican 2019 / IV

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, early 1970s. Lauderdale Place and Seddon Highwalk. Grade II listed. Barbican Estate, City of London. 

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Barbican 2019 / III

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, early 1970s. North podium vista, including (L to R) Ben Jonson House, Cromwell Tower, Frobisher Crescent, Shakespeare Tower. Grade II listed. Barbican Estate, City of London.

Monday, 21 January 2019

Barbican 2019 / II

Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, early 1970s. West elevation of Bryer Court. Grade II listed. Barbican Estate, City of London.