touch up london

Your ideas for improving the Jubilee banner on Sea Containers House.

What do you get if you cross London’s two main mayoral candidates?

The Daleks have a secret plan to conquer London, and thence the Earth. New evidence from Wikileaks points to nefarious construction plans on the Shard site.

We’ve had a few entries to our Movember ‘tache up London’ competition. Here are the best so far – but there’s still over a week left in Movember if you’d like to submit your own.

Sixteen days into Movember – the month of moustache growing in aid of the Prostate Cancer Charity – we’re weighing in to support all the hair-sprouting upper lips out there by Taching Up London. We thought it would be fun to resurrect our old Touch …

In his bid to find ever-more insane methods of spanning the Thames (a living bridge, a floating airport, cable cars) Boris Johnson has finally settled on this novel design. The Great Greenwich Escalators will rise from the grounds of the Royal Naval College, stretch out …

The City of London’s tallest building, the Heron Tower, neared completion this week after installation work attached a giant bird’s head to the skyscraper. The tower stands 246 metres tall and can now catch passing herrings for smorgasbord accompaniment with the nearby gherkin. Got your …

For our hundredth edition of this feature, we thought we’d push the boat spaceship out and take the capital into orbit. The image is all to scale and shows just how enormous the near-complete International Space Station really is. A traditional Routemaster bus, at a …

The Gherkin has long been a favourite plaything for photoshoppers. In previous instalments of Touch Up London, it’s been mechanised, launched into space, sliced into edible portions and donated to the Royal Guards as headgear. This latest effort by Beyondcraziness (Flickr) shows the iconic skyscraper …

Until 1992, the Thames TV logo was a familiar image to anyone watching ITV. Had the broadcaster and production company carried on into the 21st Century, this logo would have needed an update. Step forward Roll The Dice, a frequent contributor to the Londonist Flickr …