Articles by donbrown

No. 1 Poultry – Sir James Stirling’s PoMo

09/02/2015 donbrown 2

If you want to build anything in the City of London there are three hurdles to be overcome – first you have to be allowed […]

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The Wobbly Bridge – Foster and Caro’s ‘Blade of Light’

05/02/2015 donbrown 0

Spanning the river from St Paul’s Cathedral to the Tate Modern, London’s gallery of modern and contemporary art housed in the former Bankside power station […]

The Moorgate Lighthouse

26/01/2015 donbrown 1

Stroll up Moorgate Street from the Bank of England, and about a third of the way along on your right, look up and, set into […]

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Police Telephone Post

08/08/2014 donbrown 0

This splendid object is over the road from the entrance to Postman’s Park in St Martin’s le Grand. It’s a reminder of a time when the […]

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Bleeding London

16/06/2014 donbrown 0

Bleeding London is an exceptionally ambitious, and potentially quite wonderful, project to capture a picture from every street in London. It wasn’t something I was aware […]

My favourite piece in the British Museum

28/04/2014 donbrown 0

You can keep your hoards of gold and silver, your Egyptian mummies, your blockbuster Viking exhibitions. For me, the most wonderful piece in the whole […]

The Orangery, Clapham

16/04/2014 donbrown 1

This was a surprise. You really don’t expect to come across a huge Georgian relic in a post-war south London housing estate. But in the […]

Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar

16/03/2014 donbrown 1

Buried under the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall is an extraordinary historical survivor.   Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar is one of the few remaining parts […]

Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner

12/03/2014 donbrown 0

Today I was going to go round Banqueting House, the last properly surviving bit of the old Palace of Whitehall, but when I got there […]

The Post Office Central Power Station

30/01/2014 donbrown 0

Another door, this time on Barge House Street, in the outer wall of what is now the Oxo Tower complex. The Royal coat of arms above […]