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Spring Calling

Hex colour reference:  #76ff7a A colourful note: screamin’ green appeared in the Crayola sets in 1990, but it was a new name rather than a new shade – it had been […]

Royal Colour in London

Hex colour reference:  #7851a9 A colourful note:  Crayola’s royal purple crayon came into being in 1990, one of several similar shades in the purple and magenta groups. Given the building’s name, not […]

Curvy Architecture

The Francis Crick Institute will be moving into its new laboratory building pretty soon.  Right next to St Pancras International station, there is an almost complete, striking building full of […]

Nude Eros at Night

This nude statue on top of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain caused a fair bit of controversy when it was erected in the 1890s in the centre of Piccadilly Circus.  The […]

Tall Paul

At 111 metres in height, the current St Paul’s Cathedral was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962, when it was overtaken by the Post Office tower (now known as […]