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A book launch and exhibition for one night only to show off a range of 200 illustrations of modern London buildings.

Amid much fanfare, just under a year ago a new office block was formally opened, and over the weekend a lot of non-employees got to go inside and see what all the fuss is about.

This coming Friday (28th Sept) there's a chance to go behind the curtain at the Hackney Empire for a behind the scenes look at the recent changes to the famous entertainment venue.

These are rather delightful, an expanding range of models of some of England's Cathedrals, Abbeys and Minsters, all made in card.

As part of the Bloomsbury Festival, there's a chance to take in a behind the scenes tour of the grand hotel that dominates the area, the Principal London.

Images of what the Thames Embankment will look like when the Super Sewer is completed have been released.

The astonishing electrical control room at Woking will be open to the public as part of the Heritage Open Days at the weekend.

If you head to the top floor of the National Theatre at the Southbank, then behind two anonymous wooden doors, is a corridor filled with concrete heaven -- an exhibition about how the National Theatre was born out of concrete.

A restaurant in central London almost as famous for its toilets as it is for its lavish interior -- but also has this overflowing greenery outside.

If the Centrepoint tower had curves, then One Kemble Street is what it would look like -- a pillar of repeating concrete shapes slightly hidden from casual view.