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29/10/2025

Burlington Arcade, 1940. The photographer is Lee Miller. It’s one of many fascinating and artistic images currently on display at the Tate Britain special exhibition of her work.

Many of Miller’s Blitz photographs were published as a book, Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain Under Fire (1941). Although intended primarily for a US audience, it proved highly popular on both sides of the Atlantic. At least ten of her photographs were also included in Britain at War, an influential exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Touring North and South America over the next three years, these works shaped international perceptions of the Blitz.

In September 1940 Burlington Arcade suffered a direct hit by German bombs in the Blitz. But, while one half was destroyed the other half continued trading afterwards. The whole arcade was fully restored after the war.

26/10/2025

It’s hard to miss this significant building nearing completion opposite King’s Cross Station on Euston Road.

Belgrove House is a new-build specialised laboratory and office building for the life-sciences sector occupied by MSD as a research centre and UK Headquarters.

Life-sciences research laboratories are located on the largest floorplates at floors 1-3, providing animation to the facades and a public window into the research activity within. Offices will be located on floors 5-9 and the fourth floor will serve as a dedicated ‘collaboration hub’.

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16/09/2025

Sad to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025).

Nicholas Grimshaw’s work was always inspiring, successfully bridging technology and art to create structures and places that are both functional and beautiful.

Perhaps best known for his Eden Project in Cornwall, the images shown here show a cross section of his London projects.

23/08/2025

Mountcalm East, City Road
“Responding to the Moorfields Eye Hospital opposite, and taking inspiration from the 1980′s artworks of Bridget Riley, the facade is expressed as a triple glazed skin enlivened with differing patterns of transparency, opacity and solidity to convey diagonal slopes breaking across an underlying vertical structure.” Squire & Partners

17/05/2025

Brussels hustle. Guiding visitors from Belgium on a fascinating tour of recent architecture in King’s Cross. A lovely way to spend a sunny Saturday.

08/04/2025

Exploring Clerkenwell on perfect spring morning for an architectural walking tour.

06/03/2025

Space House is a brutalist London landmark. Designed by Richard Seifert and completed in 1968, it has recently been transformed by developer and architects

On 27th and 28th March, the ground floor will be open for a pop-up ceramics exhibition, curated and produced by

It sounds like a great opportunity to explore the architecture and some beautiful ceramics and furniture before the space is subsequently transformed to a restaurant.

23/02/2025

Great Arthur House dominates Golden Lane Estate in the City of London. It stands roughly in the centre of the development and contains flats on 16 storeys – the highest block of flats in England when it was completed in 1957. The architects were Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, who subsequently designed the adjacent Barbican Estate.

31/12/2024

We had such a magical walk in the city yesterday - not too cold and remarkably quiet, tanks to this being Twixtmas. Given it’s success, we are repeating the walk on Thursday 13th February. Please come along. If you haven’t joined our City of London tour before, you’re sure to enjoy it.

02/12/2024

For just £30 per person, you can order a gift certificate for any of our scheduled walking tours.

If you purchase the certificate before Christmas, it is valid until 30 June 2025.

Just email us to order the gift. Contact details on our website. Follow the link on our Instagram account.

02/11/2024

It’s definitely worth catching the current exhibition at White Cube Gallery - Tracey Emin: I Followed You to the End. See it before it closes on 10 November.

16/09/2024

Interesting emerging details at the the ex-American Embassy in Mayfair. An iconic Saarinen structure getting a transformation.

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