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Bit of a rehash of an earlier image. Taken during last year's Open House. Just came out of City Hall (queues were not bad at all - a mere 25 minutes) and felt the need to feed. There's a handy M&S near by and I knew that I wanted to take this point which I had previously made a mental note to take.
This area is called 'More London'.
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One of Four. Lockdown editing of a photo by me from 2017.
These are four versions of the same facade photo.
The building is the US Embassy in Nine Elms, London. Architects: Kieran Timberlake.
Update April 2019: This building is in the process of being demolished.
Another photo of the brutalist car park in Welbeck Street, Central London behind Debenham's in Oxford Street, built in 1970.
Note dated 7 March 2017. This building is sadly due to close on 13 March 2017. It's fate is unknown. Many people, including me, are hoping that it will not be demolished.
Primrose Hill is a hill of 213 feet (65 m) located on the northern side of Regent's Park in London, and also the name was given to the surrounding district. The hill summit has a clear view of central London, as well as Hampstead and Belsize Park to the north and is adorned by an engraved quotation from William Blake. Nowadays it is one of the most exclusive and expensive residential areas in London and is home to many prominent residents.
For a nice overview of Central London, Primrose Hill should be on your list of things to do. The area sits high enough to view from the London Eye to Canary Wharf in one sweeping view. What I find most interesting is from the London Eye to Canary Wharf London seems no longer/larger than the Las Vegas Strip. I need to investigate the distances of both to see if my eyes are deceiving me.
Directions to Primrose Hill from Chalk Farm Tube Station::
Chalk Farm Tube Stop is probably easiest if during the evening: When you leave the Underground Station, head West up Adelaide Road, first left up the gill and over the bridge. Decent pub on the left if you need a refreshing drink. Then veer right down the middle road of three (Regents Park Road) and follow it around. Queens Pub at the end of the road before the park is great.
Map showing Chalk Farm Underground Station to Primrose Hill
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I always found this building difficult to capture from street level, but the angle from this roof terrace makes it much easier. And with a bonus of St. Paul's Cathedral in the background.
This is one of the 90s postmodern buildings in London, and I can feel the stylistic connections with others like 1 Poultry and the SIS Building at Vauxhall ...
I took this photo from Butlers Wharf with my Samsung phone camera on a hot very and bright sunny July morning I am no longer able to walk very far but once loved the walk from Westminster Bridge along the south side of the river to Tower Bridge as there is so many interesting sights to see. A walk over the bridge and you can visit The Tower of London a castle built by the Normans back in 1078.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the City Bridge Foundation, a charitable trust founded in 1282.
The bridge was constructed to connect the 39 per cent of London's population that lived east of London Bridge, equivalent to the populations of "Manchester on the one side, and Liverpool on the other", while allowing shipping to access the Pool of London between the Tower of London and London Bridge. The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales, on 30 June 1894.
The bridge is 940 feet (290 m) in length including the abutments[4] and consists of two 213-foot (65 m) bridge towers connected at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, and a central pair of bascules that can open to allow shipping. Originally hydraulically powered, the operating mechanism was converted to an electro-hydraulic system in 1972. The bridge is part of the London Inner Ring Road and thus the boundary of the London congestion charge zone, and remains an important traffic route with 40,000 crossings every day. The bridge deck is freely accessible to both vehicles and pedestrians, whereas the bridge's twin towers, high-level walkways, and Victorian engine rooms form part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition.
Tower Bridge has become a recognisable London landmark. It is sometimes confused with London Bridge, about 0.5 miles (800 m) upstream, which has led to a persistent urban legend about an American purchasing the wrong bridge.
Detail shot of the brutalist car park in Central London behind Oxford Street.
Note dated 7 March 2017. This building is sadly due to close on 13 March 2017. It's fate is unknown. Many people, including me, are hoping that it will not be demolished.
Update April 2019: This building is in the process of being demolished.
The city skyline, as seen from the viewing gallery of the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern. Lovely time of day, just after sunset where there's still a tiny bit of light left, but the lights in the offices have come on and started twinkling.
Just about able to get away with this handheld using my little Sony RX100 compact camera in manual mode ...
Whilst I was having a wander up the Thames on a Sunday morning recently, I thought it was time to go up The Monument To The Great Fire Of London again. And although I was prepared for it and took those 311 stairs pretty slowly, it was still totally knackering to get to the top. One day I'll do it without a heavy rucksack in tow and I'm sure it'll be a different experience!
As I discovered previously when I went up in 2015, that wire safety mesh that they have there is slightly too fine a weave to be able to poke an SLR-sized lens through, so I didn't even try with my Fujinon 16-55mm lens, which has a 72mm front element. But, unlike the previous time, I did happen to have my Sony RX100 with me too, which happily extended its little zoom lens through the fence.
The sun being in the position it was only really made it possible to shoot in this direction, as it was too low and bright looking out towards Tate Modern, The Shard or Waterloo.
Anyway, here's a slightly more balanced and natural perspective on the Walkie Talkie and its brethren than the ones I've taken from ground level ...
Art deco facade of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge. This shot took me by surprise as Hay's Wharf faces north on the Thames, blocked from sun from the west by London Bridge. I was there shooting the saturated sunset colours lighting up Tower Bridge, and suddenly noticed that the glass windows of Hay's Wharf were reflecting the golden tones of the sun-flushed architecture on the opposite bank.
I always find it weird (but in a very good way) that no-one ever seems to notice the sign pointing to this viewing platform area on the north bank of the Thames just near London Bridge, opposite The Shard.
I've been up here a few times now, and never seen another person come up the stairs. Maybe it helps that the very helpful sign with a big finger pointing up the stairs is partially hidden behind a bush!
Anyway, I enjoyed a good half hour here or more this morning, taking a few new shots of this fairly familiar view. Even took the opportunity to have a FaceTime conversation with my parents whilst waiting for one of several rather long (7 minutes-ish) exposures which I'll upload in a bit.
Any London photographers who've not been up here yet, I'd say it's definitely worth a visit one time.
I did spend an inordinate amount of time trying in vain to get my camera levelled and everything as straight and perpendicular as possible ...
This was my other decent shot of this sculptural curiosity from the other evening - slightly earlier than the blue hour one.
I think I might actually prefer this one, as it was from a lower angle and there's a little more room in the composition. So glad I managed to grab those few shots before being shooed away by the security guard!
SAINT PAULS CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
Address: St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
Construction started: June 21, 1675
Opened: 1708
Height: 111 m CTBUH
Architect Sir Christopher Wren
Details of fire escape on building above the tracks at Liverpool Street station, on a grey London day.
This is one of the office buildings located within the More London area. Colloquially often referred to as the Batman Building, its slightly duller official name is 7 More London Riverside and its home to PriceWaterhouseCoopers the professional services firm.
It was cool to capture the entire building thanks to my iPhone’s ultra wide lens, and also to get just a hint of those reflections in the wet pedestrian paving.
I was walking down Bishopsgate and saw this in front of me - the light was really interesting so I had to fire off a couple of frames to capture it.
Minimal processing done on this one in Lightroom - it really did look like this.
I don't know what the dark building to the left of the Heron Tower actually is here, and couldn't find out by looking on Google Maps so any suggestions would be appreciated ...
This was taken from an often-photographed look-up spot near London's City Hall and between some of the More London buildings, though the usual perspective contains three buildings rather than just two as you see here. I wanted to narrow the focus a bit for mine to allow the negative white space to have more impact.
The last set of escalators exiting the station, do wonder if the “stop” sign is a subliminal message to stop, turn around, and head home!
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A singular piece of architecture, the office building at 30 Cannon St is notable for its unusual wedge-shaped profile and construction with glass fibre reinforced concrete.
Also it looks a bit like an ocean liner ...
Nice to observe such a familiar part of London's architectural firmament from a novel viewpoint.
Had to wait a long time in the cold, whipping wind for the clouds to break in the right way to get some sunlight on it the other afternoon though ...
St. Mary-le-Bow
Situated in Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU, St Mary’s occupied the site as far back as Saxon Times. This is through archaeological work done on site.
Unbelievably there was a medieval church also on the site but this was destroyed by the ‘London Tornado’ in 1091. This was one of the most destructive and one of the earliest tornados recorded. However the crypt survived the devastation.
During the Norman reign (1066-1154), probably towards the latter end the church was again rebuilt and renamed St. Mary de Arcubus.
Fate had not finished with the church. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). Being second in importance to St. Paul’s Cathedral it was one of the first churches to be rebuilt. This was done between 1671 and 1673, under the control of Sir Christopher Wren. The steeple, which was 223ft high and was completed in 1680 by Thomas Cartwright one of London’s leading stone masons.
A stone from the crypt of St Marys was donated to Trinity Church in New York in 1914.
According to tradition a true cockney must be born within the sound of the Bow Bells and it’s the bells of St Mary-le-Bow and not Bow Church itself.
Unfortunately the church again suffered and was largely destroyed in the blitz of 1941. The bells were completed put out of action. New ones were cast in 1956 and were finally installed in 1961.
Inside the church is a memorial to members of the Norwegian Resistance who died during WWII.
The churchyard is noted for having a statue of Captain John Smith, husband of Pocahontas and was leader of the Virginia Colony based in Jamestown.
The stained glass windows dating back to 1961 and were part of the restoration after war damage and were by John Hayward.
This is the second of three postings.
Another postmodern design on my hit list is this eccentric property commissioned by Janet Street-Porter, ubiquitous TV executive of the 1980s.
It's located just round the corner from Farringdon Station, at the junction of Britton Street and Albion Place.
There's a fascinating little 10 min feature on the BBC iPlayer in which Ms. Street-Porter herself gives a tour of the inside of the house, which is just as quirky as the outside:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01rqrd0/building-sights-se...
St. Mary-le-Bow
Situated in Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU, St Mary’s occupied the site as far back as Saxon Times. This is through archaeological work done on site.
Unbelievably there was a medieval church also on the site but this was destroyed by the ‘London Tornado’ in 1091. This was one of the most destructive and one of the earliest tornados recorded. However the crypt survived the devastation.
During the Norman reign (1066-1154), probably towards the latter end the church was again rebuilt and renamed St. Mary de Arcubus.
Fate had not finished with the church. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). Being second in importance to St. Paul’s Cathedral it was one of the first churches to be rebuilt. This was done between 1671 and 1673, under the control of Sir Christopher Wren. The steeple, which was 223ft high and was completed in 1680 by Thomas Cartwright one of London’s leading stone masons.
A stone from the crypt of St Marys was donated to Trinity Church in New York in 1914.
According to tradition a true cockney must be born within the sound of the Bow Bells and it’s the bells of St Mary-le-Bow and not Bow Church itself.
Unfortunately the church again suffered and was largely destroyed in the blitz of 1941. The bells were completed put out of action. New ones were cast in 1956 and were finally installed in 1961.
Inside the church is a memorial to members of the Norwegian Resistance who died during WWII.
The churchyard is noted for having a statue of Captain John Smith, husband of Pocahontas and was leader of the Virginia Colony based in Jamestown.
The stained glass windows dating back to 1961 and were part of the restoration after war damage and were by John Hayward.
This is the second of three postings.
On my walk back down to Vauxhall from the BBC last night I took a slightly different route and swung past Westminster Abbey. As it was closed to general visitors by that time, it made a good time to grab a shot of the fabulous north entrance whilst it was free from people!
The water here is so still so makes for stunning reflections of the modern architecture that is going up in rapid fashion.
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Got lucky with the light one morning on my way to work and grabbed this shot of Portcullis House ...
The Shard doing its Christmas thing. Annoyingly I just missed the animated light display and didn't fancy hanging around another hour for the next one so had to be happy with this shot for the time being!
What you are looking at is spectra, an artwork by Japanese conceptual artist Ryoji Ikeda, and it is an Artangel project co-commissioned by the Mayor of London. It appeared without warning to commemorate the centenary of the start of the Great War on August 4, 1914.
SAINT PAULS CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
Address: St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
Construction started: June 21, 1675
Opened: 1708
Height: 111 m CTBUH
Architect Sir Christopher Wren
Here's a rare converging verticals shot from me and my tilt shift lens.
This vantage point was simply too close to The Gherkin to be able to shift enough to fit it all in the frame without tilting up! So I was essentially just using the lens as a regular wide angle 17mm one.
But I actually quite like the effect in this instance. Gives you a sense of what an imposing presence this building has when viewed from close quarters.
Also I really liked the light that was falling on the scene whilst I was there in that moment ...
St. Mary-le-Bow
Situated in Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU, St Mary’s occupied the site as far back as Saxon Times. This is through archaeological work done on site.
Unbelievably there was a medieval church also on the site but this was destroyed by the ‘London Tornado’ in 1091. This was one of the most destructive and one of the earliest tornados recorded. However the crypt survived the devastation.
During the Norman reign (1066-1154), probably towards the latter end the church was again rebuilt and renamed St. Mary de Arcubus.
Fate had not finished with the church. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). Being second in importance to St. Paul’s Cathedral it was one of the first churches to be rebuilt. This was done between 1671 and 1673, under the control of Sir Christopher Wren. The steeple, which was 223ft high and was completed in 1680 by Thomas Cartwright one of London’s leading stone masons.
A stone from the crypt of St Marys was donated to Trinity Church in New York in 1914.
According to tradition a true cockney must be born within the sound of the Bow Bells and it’s the bells of St Mary-le-Bow and not Bow Church itself.
Unfortunately the church again suffered and was largely destroyed in the blitz of 1941. The bells were completed put out of action. New ones were cast in 1956 and were finally installed in 1961.
Inside the church is a memorial to members of the Norwegian Resistance who died during WWII.
The churchyard is noted for having a statue of Captain John Smith, husband of Pocahontas and was leader of the Virginia Colony based in Jamestown.
The stained glass windows dating back to 1961 and were part of the restoration after war damage and were by John Hayward.
This is the second of three postings.