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View of the week: British Library
After a reasonably mild winter, London has at last had its first (and possibly only) snowfall of the season. Here is the British Library‘s forecourt, with Eduardo Paolozzi‘s (1924 – 2005) Newton sculpture covered in a few centimeters of snow. The 1995 bronze sculpture is a representation of the scientist Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), after a famous illustration of the same by William Blake (1757 […]
View of the week: British Museum reading room
January 11, 2012
Sadly, this lovely space is now permanently closed as a reading room and used entirely for visiting exhibitions. By sheer coincidence, we stopped by in the last few minutes of the last day that it operated as a library (a few years ago, now), and took some shots of the interior. Read more about the […]
Church of Christ the King & Dr Williams’ Library
April 2, 2011
On the corner of the lovely Gordon Square and Byng Place in Bloomsbury is the imposing 19th century neo-Gothic Church of Christ the King. Built between 1851 – 1854 out of Bath stone, its cruciform-plan interior was designed by John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon (1817 – 1877), a British architect and author. The church was Grade 1 listed in 1954. Originally […]
London Bytes
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- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
February 6, 2012
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