The Strand frontage of the Savoy is a bit of a jumble, dictated by the way it expanded from the Embankment around the Savoy Theatre. The n...

Surmounting the Strand facade is the coat of arms of George III, carved by John Bacon Senior. The shield is quartered with the harp of I...

The Strand facade of Somerset House was the first part of the complex to be built, in 1776. It is adorned with four allegorical figures ca...

Gordon Mansions is just the sort of overpoweringly ugly mansion block that got late-Victorian 'Queen Anne' architecture a bad name...

The massive Cumberland Hotel behind Marble Arch was built for J. Lyons in 1930 at the height of the Art Deco mania for everything Egyptia...

 The Artist as Hephaestus (1987) could be by no-one but Eduardo Paolozzi, a perfect example of his brutalist style, looking as though the ...

27 Southampton Street dates from 1707  but its main interest is, unusually, the plaque over the front door put up in 1900 to commemorate t...