Category: Architecture

The Spire

A bellcote is like a dovecote with at least one difference; the latter is a home for pigeons, the former for bats and bells.

Spot the Difference

This is the view looking north from the rear of our house. Note the BP car wash, bottom right, and the Ark building on the left as they will appear again. The trees will not appear again so give them a clap now.

Vitruvius Britannicus

A vitrine is a glass display case. The name is derived from vitre, glass in French. It has nothing to do with Vitruvius.

Brown Hart Gardens

I have often walked past this building, on the west side of Duke Street in Mayfair, and wondered what’s it all about?

Another Diana

Estcourt J Clack sounds like a character from PG Wodehouse; a dyspeptic American millionaire perhaps.

Room 32

I apologise the picture editor has made a muddle. Today, you may be disappointed, we visit another Room 32.

Save Our Hammersmith

The site for the new development looks much the same as it did after the Magistrates’ Courts were demolished at the beginning of this year.

The Queen’s Tower

The Palace Theatre on Cambridge Circus is a landmark no doubt familiar to you even if you are not planning on going to the Harry Potter show currently running.