Camley Street Natural Park – King’s Cross Oasis
Having passed through the King’s Cross development quite frequently over the past few years to meet clients, I know that the changes there have been […]
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Magna Carta – did she die in vain?
To the British Library for their excellent Magna Carta – Law, Liberty, Legacy Exhbition* Although 800 years old, the two copies of the Magna Carta […]
Wood Street Architecture
Stand with your back to the City of London police HQ in Wood Street and you can see the collision of old and new in […]
Wood Street Police Station
So I’m researching a short blog post on the architecture of Wood Street in the City of London, and Mr Google presents me with an […]
Caravaggio – The Supper at Emmaus
Caravaggio: The Supper at Emmaus: 1601 We’re looking at the painting of a scene described in the gospel of St Luke. The story is that […]
Leonardo da Vinci – The Virgin of the Rocks
PREVIOUS: BOTTICELLI, VENUS AND MARS Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks: Late 1400s, early 1500s There’s some imprecision about the date, which I’ll come to […]
Titian – Bacchus and Ariadne
PREVIOUS: HOLBEIN – THE AMBASSADORS Titian: Bacchus and Ariadne:1520-23 After the static pictures we’ve just seen, this one explodes with life, as the god Bacchus leaps […]
No. 1 Poultry – Sir James Stirling’s PoMo
If you want to build anything in the City of London there are three hurdles to be overcome – first you have to be allowed […]
The Wobbly Bridge – Foster and Caro’s ‘Blade of Light’
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
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 […]