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In Search of Classical Greece
By now, everyone and his dog knows about the British Museum’s blockbuster Ice Age Art and Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibitions, currently attracting huge crowds. But there’s another (free) exhibition equally deserving of attention, taking place now in the British Museum’s room 90. It is In search of Classical Greece: travel drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi 1805–1806, a pictorial survey […]
Open House 2012: Lend Lease
October 11, 2012
The Lend Lease HQ at Regent’s Place was an unexpected addition to our Open House 2012 schedule. Strolling by the entrance at day’s end, we were invited in by a security guard, who was happy to let us photograph the vast lobby and atrium. A few more people wandered in after us, and soon there was a sufficiently […]
Open House 2012: Lumen URC
October 2, 2012
Did you make it to any London Open House events in September? In case you missed it all, here is the first of several posts on Open House destinations in Bloomsbury. Open House destinations further afield will appear at London Bytes soon. The Lumen Uniting Reformed Church, located where Tavistock Place meets Regent Square, was our first stop […]
View of the week: New concourse for Kings Cross
March 27, 2012
The new concourse at Kings Cross St Pancras, designed by John McAslan and Partners, was recently unveiled and has been grabbing lots of attention from media and architecture enthusiasts alike. On the day we visited, there seemed to be as many people photographing the steel roof as there were scurrying to catch trains. It certainly is striking […]
Gothic Revival reborn – behind the scenes at the new St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel
June 3, 2011
After a six year, £200 million restoration project by the Manhattan Loft Corporation, the former Midland Grand Hotel building has finally re-opened to the public as the 5-star St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, part of the Marriott hotel group. Locals and commuters know the imposing Gothic Revival edifice, straddling Euston and Midland Roads in Kings Cross, as the gatekeeper […]
Senate House – the Art Deco landmark of Bloomsbury
May 28, 2011
Once home to the British Government’s Ministry of Information during WWII, architect Charles Holden’s 1930′s Art Deco structure now houses the School of Advanced Studies, administrative offices for the University of London, and the Senate House Library. Surrounded by Birkbeck College, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the Institute […]
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
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