(Martin Pettitt– flickr/creative commons license) Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates redeveloped the London Unilever office, completed in 2007. The 1931 building received a light, modern interior. The upper conference room is surrounded by open glazing and greenery, a startling new sensibility …
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(Dave Catchpole– flickr/creative commons license) Ian Bogle of BFLS designed the Strata Skyscraper, meant to revive London’s downtrodden at Elephant and Castle. It is similar to the Discovery Tower Houston with an array of wind turbines crowning the top. But …
Salisbury was like another world. Entering Salisbury Plains reminded me of Neuschwanstein on the Bavarian border, a crossover from normalcy into a fairytale setting. I traveled along ancient barrows, imagining what secrets they concealed as I approached the epic circle …
(Citizen59– flickr/creative commons license) Madame Tussauds London wax museum on Baker Street is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Central London. The copper domed building is a planetarium. More Info (tnarik– flickr/creative commons license) (Mad-Lunatic– flickr/creative commons license) …
(yellow book– flickr/creative commons license) Ellis Williams Architects converted the Baltic Flour Mill into an art museum, at a cost of £50m. It was completed in 2002. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge by Wilkinson Eyre crosses the River Tyne to reach …
Foster and Partners, Buro Happold, Mott MacDonald and Arup designed the Sage Gateshead on the River Tyne in Quays, England. It was completed in 2004 at a cost of £70 million. The blobby curvatured building provides musical education, performance and …
(ahisgett– flickr/creative commons license) The 800 year old cattle market at Smithfield London was moved to Copenhagen Fields, Islington in 1852. Sir Horace Jones designed the Victorian Central Market in 1868. It cost £993,816. It has cast iron elliptical arches …
(Ted and Jen– flickr/creative commons license) Sidney Stott and W.W. Gibbings designed the original Fort Dunlop factory in the 1920s. Hazel Rounding and landscape architect Martha Schwartz designed the developed building, completed in 2006. The factory was converted to office …
John Honer, Theo Crosby, John Honer and other various architects designed the Brutalist Barbican Centre, which opened in 1982 north of the City of London, England. The complex includes music halls for the London Symphony Orchestra and other groups, exhibition …
(Ewan-M– flickr/creative commons license) John Fowler with the Metropolitan Railway designed the original Kensington railway station, between Gloucester Road and Knightsbridge in London, completed in 1868. Additional stations and buildings opened in later years. An unassuming front leads to a …