Seeing Architecture

08/08/2026

It’s great to have a new V&A venue in London. I enjoyed discovering the architecture by and the thought-provoking collection yesterday.

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also offers tours to student groups. Today we guided a group of Italian teens on our City of London walk. We even had time to corral the students for a group photo outside the Royal Exchange.

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.