“Overwhelming” was how I described my first visit to the Musée du Louvre more than twenty years ago; “ordeal” was the word used by its...

The words ‘face’ and ‘façade’ are connected etymologically but also practically. Just as the former tells us something about a person’s...

Today’s appeal by English Heritage for our help with finding commemorative blue plaques lost to war, redevelopment or planning is also a...

The sustainability agenda is now driving a host of projects that are stripping back, remodelling and upscaling office blocks originally...

“Most people walking along Kingsway aren’t even aware the tower is here…” Nick Durrant of ING Media is describing Space House, the...

For years I’ve believed that St Magnus House, a riverside office building in the City of London from the prolific practice of Richard...

If you were looking north from the Sky Garden in Fenchurch Street this morning, I could see you. Mind you that probably applies if you...

The National Portrait Gallery reopened a month ago today. Reoriented and refreshed physically, by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell,...

A generation ago the Financial Times left its purpose-built home in the shadow of St Paul’s for a generic glass box in Southwark. A dozen...

With new development continuing across London, including in areas like Stratford and Vauxhall that were ignored in previous decades, it...

There are a dozen Hiltons in London, from Paddington to Canary Wharf and from Southwark to Islington. But ask a taxi to take you to ‘the...

“There are many 5-star hotels in London but nowhere quite like Claridge’s,” claims its website. This is somewhat ironic, as we shall see,...

Richard Jolley’s cartoon, originally done for Private Eye, is fun but accurate: Britain’s national galleries of landscapes and portraits...

What's behind the red curtains? Find out by reading the latest entry in my unique project tracker for the new City of London Law Courts...

Leighton House, built by Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, reopens tomorrow. You'll recall that in the summer I experienced the...

A large, prominent commercial block on a major London street is to be demolished. The decision is criticised by professionals and...

In three months’ time Leighton House, the studio-turned-museum built by artist Frederic Leighton in the latter part of the nineteenth...

Eighty years ago Nazi Germany’s bombing offensive devastated the City of London, then as now the financial centre of the British capital....

Until Wednesday one of the ‘Secrets of the London Underground’ was when, exactly, Crossrail would open, but TfL’s announcement that day...

The Barbican arts centre within the City of London estate of the same name is 40 years old today, having been opened by the Queen on 3...