Devoted to the unexpected details that help to make life in the city worth living
Monday, 29 September 2008
Opposite the British Museum, Great Russell Street WC1
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Opposite the British Museum is a very unmemorable pair of hotel buildings by CF Hayward, built in 1889 and 1895. Hayward was sufficiently pl...
Friday, 26 September 2008
British Museum, Great Russell Street WC1
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The great pediment over the front door of the British Museum was originally going to be unadorned as designed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1823,...
Friday, 19 September 2008
Faraday Monument, Elephant & Castle SE1
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For me, this thing epitomises everything that is wrong with modern architecture and sculpture. As a composition it is good, a simple rectili...
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Kingsgate House, Southampton Row WC1
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This statue of John Bunyan holding a copy of The Pilgrim's Progress stands on the corner of the former headquarters of the Baptist Unio...
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Victoria House, Southampton Way WC1
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Victoria House is one of the last huzzahs of the Beaux Arts style in London, built for the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society in 1921-34 bu...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008
41 Kingsway WC2
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These magnificent merfolk with their tails tying themselves in knots and the strange fish (known in the merfolk language as 'lunch')...
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Congress House, Dyott Street WC1
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From the pavement in Dyott Street and you can look through the sheet glass walls of the staircase and canteen of Congress House right into t...
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