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Urban Design in London

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages.  It is an inter-disciplinary subject that unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, and civil and municipal engineering. In […]

Royal Naval College Mirrored

The Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, was not given its name for nothing. The ceiling is painted in the utmost detail, hard to appreciate with […]

Store Street Espresso

I’ve been very busy the last few weeks and hadn’t had time to find a new coffee place.  In fact, I had visited this place a month or so ago […]

No Words Required

Regents Park in the sunshine:. Yes, we had a sunny day in London on Sunday – at long last! Wordless Wednesday – on Wednesdays  all over the internet bloggers  post […]

Boats and Cowes

A few years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to Cowes Week: not to compete you understand, just to sail alongside and drink champagne! Cowes Week is one of […]

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge looks extra grandiose in black and white. . Part of Sonel’s Black and White Challenge: Bridges.

Happy 40th Birthday, British Library

The British Library celebrated its 40th birthday today. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom.  It is a legal deposit library, and as such it receives copies of every book produced in Britain, […]

Allies

Look at this companionable couple: “Allies”. F.D. Roosevelt and Churchill sit chatting on a bench in Bond Street, London in Lawrence Holofcener’s 1995 bronze sculpture, erected to mark 50 years […]

Flowers on Park Lane

These flowers attracted me from behind the iron fence of a small garden on Park Lane in London. . Part of Friday Flower Festival.