architecture in london
Great green wall now covering side of the rube station.
Here is a very short iPhone film showing the test ‘flight’ of the cable car across the Thames earlier today. There are more pictures below the post on the Gherkin.
Barbican YMCA will close in September. It is a great building with a superb central staircase. It has been neglected and is now in need of a sympathetic conversion to something useful.
Completion of Watermark Place and the riverside walkway has created a pedestrian-friendly walk to rival that on the South Bank. The monumental Mondial House telephone exchange building, famously modelled on a typewriter key board and clad in white fibre glass, has given way to a building set back from the river and partly clad in weathered oak reminiscent of the medieval remains still visible on the foreshore.
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This is a good place for breakfast. Ignore the overhyped vegetables and eat bubble at Maria’s Cafe in Borough Market
Three views of the ‘walkie talkie’ building from Hays Galleria framed by a recently-installed artwork.
Paul Lincoln's square mile. 
