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Saw this interesting building recently up in Camden. Haven't been able to find much information about it but it's certainly unusual. It looked to house a bunch of different companies.
I had intended to take this photograph with my little Sony RX100 compact camera but the battery ran out, so I had to make do with the iPhone's camera. I do find shooting with the Lightroom camera rather than Apple's stock 'Camera' app gives me more control over the settings and in most cases nicer results ...
The view across the Thames to the cluster of new buildings which now populate the city.
It was during setting up this snap that I realised my fingers had gone numb! Not particularly helpful when trying to tweak camera settings ...
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I discovered this building when walking along the southwark bridge. I didnt know it has so much history, great example of urban London old architecture. It is the Vintners Hall, and the original one was burnt down during the great fire of London and then rebuilt soon afterwards in 1671! the present facade and entrance dates from 1910...this Vintners company was stablished to regulate the wine trade and these days still supporting that business.
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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
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Lloyd's London Architecture
One of the most futuristic buildings with the Inside-Out design, Lloyd's of London looks like something out of a Blade Runner movie...The building transforms itself at night when the lights illuminate the striking lifts and staircases...
The Lloyd's building (also sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building)[1] is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, and is located at 1, Lime Street, in the City of London, England.
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor for the scheme.[2] Like the Pompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK. It is important to note that (like the Pompidou Centre) this building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s (see Plug-in City by Archigram for an example).
The building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its focal point is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the famous Lutine Bell. The Underwriting Room (often simply known as the Room) is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60 metres (197 ft) high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher floors are glassed-in, and can only be reached via the outside lifts.
The Lloyd's building is 88 metres (289 ft) to the roof, with 14 floors.[3] On top of each service core stand the cleaning cranes pushing the height to 95.10 metres (312 ft). Modular in plan, each floor can be altered with the addition or removal of partitions and walls.
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Lloyd's London Architecture
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Pardes House Grammar School. This block by Edward Roberts, 1861, was the start of an ambitious scheme which alas was not completed. Was formally Christ College.
This is a building I'd never seen or heard about before, but on a little walkabout near Moorgate I happened across it and liked the morning light falling on it, taken as it was around 9am.
After some light Googling I've managed to find out that it was built in 1929 for the Singer Sewing Machine Company as their London headquarters, and is Grade II listed. It now houses the suitably-named Singer Tavern.
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This is another building I found rather challenging to try and photograph satisfyingly. Not least because of its location on a busy junction. I took a while trying various different angles, but decided to post this one from square on as I haven't seen any other images framed this way on Flickr.
This used every inch of the 17mm lens's wide angle perspective, and the full vertical shift of 12mm in order to just about squeeze the whole thing into a single frame. I had my back pressed up against a wall in order to achieve the composition I was going for!
This perspective rather exaggerates the overhang of the top section of the building, but I like how in-your-face it feels from this proximity ...
The wide-angle view from Waterloo Bridge looking east towards the City Of London and, beyond that to Canary Wharf.
It's weird to think that just 15 years ago the view would have been completely different, with St Paul's and the old NatWest tower being the only major players in the skyline ...
Church of St Pancras 4 caryatids copied from the Erechtheum by John Rossi (formerly a modeller at Coade's Manufactury) built up in terracotta pieces around cast-iron columns; behind the caryatids, a sarcophagus. 2 leaf doors with roundels in the high podium.
For the first time in history the iconic building St.Paul’s has let photographers to capture the inside of the cathedral. I couldn't miss this opportunity.
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London Architecture - British Museum
The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works,[3] is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence[3] and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.[a]
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin.
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London is not characterised by any particular architectural style, having accumulated its buildings over a long period of time. Few structures predate the Great Fire of 1666, notable exceptions including the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Banqueting House and several scattered Tudor survivors in the City of London.
In itself, the City contains a wide variety of styles, progressing through Wren's late 17th century churches and the financial institutions of the 18th and 19th century such as the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England, to the early 20th century Old Bailey (England and Wales' central criminal court) and the 1960s Barbican Estate. Notable recent buildings are the 1980s skyscraper Tower 42, the Lloyd's building with services running along the outside of the structure, and the 2004 Swiss Re building, known as the "Gherkin".
London's generally low-rise nature makes these skyscrapers and others such as One Canada Square and its neighbours at Canary Wharf and the BT Tower in Fitzrovia very noticeable from a distance. High-rise development is restricted at certain sites if it would obstruct protected views of St. Paul's Cathedral. Nevertheless, there are plans for more skyscrapers in central London (see Tall buildings in London), including the 72-story "Shard of Glass", which is now completed and is currently the tallest building in the European Union.
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London Fisheye Architecture
The old Spitalfields Market in East London and its new extension reflected in the windows of a building across the street.
So, after photographing St. Peter's Notting Hill the other day, I was Googling around the topic of London churches, and started going through a list of the various Grade I and II listed church buildings in the capital. Turns out there's quite a lot of them.
I thought an interesting ongoing photography project could involve picking the ones that look the most appealing to me and getting images of them.
This one of Temple Church was actually taken the other morning before work, motivated by the clear conditions and nice light on that particular day. Hopefully I can do more as and when my energy levels and the weather match up ...
Went down a side street I'd not been down before and found this building just round the corner from 'Love Lane'.
It's the Insurance Hall, and this building was the office of the Chartered Insurance Institute from 1933 to 2018. Now it provides rentable office space.
Quite a cool building though ...
Took a walk down from the Green Park tube station area to Vauxhall and went a slightly different route to usual, past this interesting piece of 20th century architecture at 66 St James's Street.
Designed by the British Modernist architect Rodney Gordon and opened back in 1984 ...
One of the several late Victorian cabman's shelters in Central London. Still used by cab (taxi) drivers. July 2014
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Canary Wharf is a major business district located in London, United Kingdom. Rivalling London's traditional financial centre, the City of London , Canary Wharf contains many of the UK's tallest buildings, including the tallest, One Canada Square. Canary Wharf contains around 14 million square feet of office and retail space, of which around 7.9 million square feet is owned by Canary Wharf Group. Around 90,000 people work in Canary Wharf and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms and media organisations including Barclays, Citigroup, Clifford Chance, HSBC and Thomson Reuters
Canary Wharf is located in the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. The West India Docks once formed part of the busiest port in the world.[6] After the docks were closed in 1980 the British Government adopted various policies to stimulate the redevelopment of the area, including through the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1981 and granting the Isle of Dogs Enterprise Zone status in 1982.[6] In 1987 the Canadian company Olympia and York agreed to construct a major office development on the Isle of Dogs, with construction commencing in 1988.
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London - A Blue Night at Canary Wharf
River Thames, London.
Long exposure with 16 stops ND filter.
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London Abstract Architecture
30 St Mary Axe (formerly the Swiss Re Building, and informally also known as "the Gherkin") is a skyscraper in London's financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004.[2] With 41 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall,[1] and stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange, which was extensively damaged in 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA.[2][4]
After the plans to build the Millennium Tower were dropped, 30 St Mary Axe was designed by Norman Foster and Arup engineers,[5] and was erected by Skanska in 2001–2003.[1]
The building has become an iconic symbol of London and is one of the city's most widely recognised examples of modern architecture.
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London Abstract Architecture
Just the side of the Broadgate Pavilion which houses a small Redemption Roaster coffee kiosk at the bottom.
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Another sunset take on this familiar London landmark which I pass every day back and forth on my commute to work.
View from the base of the Shard, London, currently the tallest building in the European Union. Architect: Renzo Piano.
Quite pleased with this composition - it took a while of moving backwards and forwards to try and arrange the scene in a pleasing and balanced way, and thanks to the Canon 17mm tilt shift lens I was able to be at close proximity but still fit everything in the frame with a bit of headroom round the sides.
There are endless possibilities for photography round the Barbican Estate, and I think I'll definitely return when the light is a bit nicer to see what else I can capture.
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