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Iconic Battersea Power Station to Get Great Glass Elevator in Its Chimney Offering 360 Degree Views of London from 2021

No, Willy Wonka isn't building a chocolate factory in London. Battersea...

Built London: Brutalist Architecture in London

Cold, geometrical, bland.  These are some of the words used to...

Stanfords, My Favorite Bookstore in London, Is Moving From its Iconic Current Location after More than a Century

  This news has gutted me. I try to take the changing...

Top Ten London: 10 Fascinating and Beautiful London Housing Estates

Since the Victorian period, the British government and local councils have...

Exhibition Alert: Laura Visits the 2018 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace – Prince Charles’s Favorites in the Royal Collection

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Travel Alert: Reminder – Big Ben is Still Covered in Scaffolding and Will Ruin Your Tourist Pictures Until 2021

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Laura’s London: A Look Behind the Scenes of the New Royal Academy of Arts Renovations Opening This Weekend

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Westminster Abbey Gets a New Tower

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The London Fiver – Five Ancient Ruins in London to Visit That Haven’t Been Swept Away By Time

London is an ancient city.  Even before the Romans established their...

The New Piccadilly Circus Billboard: A Review

In this article, I’m going to review a billboard. But not just...

Great London Buildings – Banqueting House

Once part of the Palace of Whitehall, today Banqueting House is...

Great London Buildings – The Old BBC Television Centre

Now a symbol of London’s ever-changing nature as new development takes...

Great London Buildings – Heron Tower

Bishopsgate certainly has its own contributions to London's skyline including the...

Great London Buildings – Tower 42

One of the jewels of post-war skyscrapers in London, Tower 42...

London Alert: The Iconic Lights in Piccadilly Circus Have Been Turned Back On!

We reported earlier this year that the iconic billboards in Piccadilly...
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