buildings

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Bulky Buildings Are Us

Earlier this week, the Trinity project got the go-ahead from the City of London. You might not have heard of Trinity. It’s a cosy threesome of office buildings set for construction in that obscure corner of the City known as Minories. Just shy of 100 …

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Dome Was Destitute From Day One

It’s tempting to bask in the success of the re-branded O2 and write off the building’s seven year existence as useless white elephant de nos jours as a bad dream. Unfortunately, that was no nightmare, and it seems that financially the Millennium Dome never stood …

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Book Review: London Atlas of Architecture By Alejandro Bahamon

There’s plenty of tomes on the market describing our city’s buildings. A search on Amazon for the term ‘London architecture’ yields 1070 results. Into this crowded marketplace – one of the few not designed by Horace Jones – steps the London Atlas of Architecture. It’s …