It’s only a 10-minute walk away from the newly developed area of Coal's Drop Yard near Kings Cross and home to some knockout monuments, mausoleums and other cool stuff.
I've always been interested in the Hungarian Brutalist architect, Ernő Goldfinger.
His last significant building was the Trellik Tower, a landmark in my neighbourhood of North Kensington, up near the top of Portobello Road and which is now seen as a highly desirable by...
The memorial to John F. Kennedy at Runnymede is a very different kind of memorial.
The principal element is a 7 ton, 100 million year old block of Portland Stone that bears a dedication, the dates of the President's life and a quotation from Kennedy's inaugural address...
I went on a cycle trip outside of London to Kent countryside the other day and came across several of these curiously shaped houses dotted all over the place.
They are known as Oast houses and for centuries were an integral part producing beer, and we Brits all love a...
Abbey Road, the pedestrian (or zebra as we like to call them n the UK) crossing made famous by the Beatles is pretty close to where I live and I often cycle by it on the way home.
Pictures taken a few days apart, before and after its paint job. In both cases, it is incr...
Although it looks straight out of Hogwarts, this noble building in the heart of Chancery Lane, aka Legal London, has been the main library of Kings College University since they acquired it in 2001. Known as the Maughan Library after a past graduate and major benefacto...
Stars and Stripes majestically flying over Winfield House, the British residence of the US Ambassador.
Located within Regents Park, this 35 room palatial mansion was originally commissioned in 1936 by Barbara Hutton, heiress of the retail tycoon Frank Woolworth and one...
