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Recent Blog Posts
- A curiosity about the local area maps at St Pancras Station
- Weekly round-up of London’s railway transport news
- A bronze frieze of London’s Underground commuters
- Tube Maps made from Lego go on display in stations
- Rare chance to ride a vintage tube train around the Kennington Loop
- Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome Collection
- Olympic Park opens in 47, or 49, or 50 days time at midnight
- Visit the Salvation Army Museum
- Hidden for 100 years – the Cheapside Hoard goes on display again
- Lets sponsor a tube station!
Architecture Archive
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A look around an empty office block in Victoria
Posted on May 12, 2013 | 3 CommentsEven by the standards of the era it was built in, Selborne House -- that sat opposite the Army and Navy store on Victoria Street -- was a masterpiece of bland office design -- a brown monolithic slab of drab. -
In praise of Euston Railway Station
Posted on April 21, 2013 | 16 CommentsMuch derided, in part for its admittedly shabby appearance and dated fascia, as for how it reduced the Euston Arch to rubble, Euston Station is not a particularly loved building. -
Planes, Trains and Drains at the Building Centre
Posted on April 11, 2013 | 1 CommentA new exhibition about London's infrastructure opened recently in the Building Centre that shows off the three dominant challenges for the city in the decades ahead. -
There is a Big Red Shed on the SouthBank
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsIf you have passed by the Southbank recently or crossed over Waterloo Bridge in a red bus, you might have struggled to avoid seeing a big red shed that has appeared next to the National Theatre. -
London Wall’s Ugliest Tower Block
Posted on March 9, 2013 | 6 CommentsOf the many post-war mistakes built in the City of London, one of the ugliest has managed to cling on determinedly, the black and steel monolith of St Alphage House. -
A look inside the Lighthouse HQ next to the Tower of London
Posted on February 5, 2013 | 1 CommentFor just under 500 years, Trinity House has been looking after the safety of seafarers around the coasts of Britain, but an organisation set up to save people from disaster seems to be rather unlucky with its own buildings. -
The splendour that is the Victorian “Cathedral of North London”
Posted on November 24, 2012 | 1 CommentAs Private Eye is wont to say, it's Grim up North London, but if the eponymous characters of that newspaper were to dart out of their shell, they might find a remarkable building peaking its tall spire above the council estates of Kilburn. -
England’s oldest Corpse-Gate can be found in South London
Posted on November 11, 2012 | 5 CommentsIf you approach an old church, mainly in towns and villages rather than cities, you might enter the churchyard through a small wooden gate with a pitched roof. These small... -
Go inside the Duke of Wellington’s London Home
Posted on November 5, 2012 | No CommentsIn a time when politicians were almost exclusively drawn from the landed gentry, it helped prospective Prime Minister’s to have a grand London home to entertain and work from, and... -
Closed for 130 years, the public observation tower in central London
Posted on October 30, 2012 | 14 CommentsIn 1834, a tall observation tower was opened to the public near to Trafalgar Square giving people a chance to look down on Pall Mall and overlook St James Park...