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Designs for the new Museum of London go on display

The Museum of London is planning to move, and has put up a display of some of the designs being considered for its new home.

Living in the Barbican Estate

As part of a series of exhibitions about the construction of the Barbican housing estate, the latest takes a look at how the empty concrete shells were turned in homes to live in.

A Huge Scale Model of the City of London

Everyone loves a model village, and now the City of London has opened up its to the public.

First ever chance to climb St Paul’s Cathedral dome on Sundays

Ordinarily, St Paul's Cathedral is not open to tourists on Sundays, but next month, the dome will be opened up for dome-only climbs.

Ticket Alert: Tube Station Architecture Tours

The Transport Museum has announced that it is going to be running a series of tours of tube stations focusing on their architecture.

Covent Garden Covered in Mirrors

Covent Garden's main Market Building has been covered up, with 32,000 square feet of mirrors.

Skyscraper made from wood for the Barbican?

A concept has been shown off which could see that bastion of concrete brutalism invaded by natural materials -- in the form of a wooden skyscraper more than twice the height of the current buildings.

Last chance to visit the Design Museum’s current home

You have just a few weeks to visit the Design Museum in its current home next to the Thames before it closes to move to a new home in Kensington.

See Baker Street’s gloomy subway transformed

A once dingy subway just outside Baker Street Station has been transformed into fairyland tunnel of historical delights.

Serpentine Pavilion 2016 Unveiled

Hyde Park's Serpentine Gallery has shown off the latest in its annual temporary pavilions -- an unzipped triangular cathedral.

Edging Closer to Reopening the Cally Tower to the Public

Plans to reopen the derelict Caledonian Tower, with its incredible views over London have moved a step closer, after Islington Council showed off revamped plans for a visitor center.

Routemaster bus tours of London’s architecture

Fancy traveling in a vintage green routemaster bus conducting tours around London's architecture?

Unbuilt London: The Millennium Tower

A tower taller and wider than the Shard was once planned to stand in the heart of the City of London. Penned by Sir Norman Foster, the Millennium Tower would have stood more than 380 metres high and looked down on The Shard across the river.

Unfurling ice-rinks onto the River Thames

An architectural practice has shown off a concept for an unfolding ice rink which can be installed in places along the river and unfurl like a flower when the weather is right to form a natural ice rink.

Ticket Alert — Lord Adonis and Norman Foster debate

Potentially interesting talk and debate at the LSE later this month with three significant figures, Lord Adonis, Norman Foster, and Deyan Sudjic.

Giant model of Canary Wharf

Sitting alongside the marketing suite half-way up the main Canary Wharf can be found the estate's marketing suite, and in a side room, to show off the development, a gigantic scale model of the estate.

Inside St Pancras Chambers

A decade ago, work started on refurbishing one of London's more famous derelict buildings, and a few years ago, it opened as a posh hotel.

The Festival of Britain’s clock tower in East London

A remnant of the 1951 Festival of Britain can be found in East London far from the South Bank, but is, for locals, as vibrant a focal point.

Photos from inside the derelict Millennium Mills

A monumental block of industrial heritage that has stood empty for roughly 35 years is about to be returned to new use.

London Underground HQ to be turned into flats

Westminster Council has given permission for London Transport's iconic headquarters building to be converted into flats. Permission was granted yesterday at the Planning Applications Committee meeting.

East London office gets its own private tube train

An office block with an entrance next to Aldgate East tube station has installed its own private tube train — as a waiting room.

London’s 50-meter high Great Pagoda to reopen to the public

It was one of the jewels in the crown of Georgian London: a building so unusual that a suspicious public were unconvinced it would remain standing when it was built in 1762.

Rare opening of a derelict Georgian house

A note for your diaries, as next month there will be a rare opportunity to explore a tiny jewel of secret London, a 1719 Huguenot merchant's house

Unbuilt London: The Victorian skyscraper taller than The Shard

Around 160 years ago, plans were announced for a skyscraper in London that would have a summit even higher than The Shard stands today.