What’s the tallest skyscraper in London? It’s a common question. Skyscrapers compete for height. No sooner is one boasting a record than a new rival it is announced as countries vie against each other to hold the record. It’s the same in major cities across the globe. Size isn’t everything though. Being the tallest will […]
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Have you noticed how buildings like the Shard can hide? Well, maybe not literally hide but they can vanish from view. You walk down the street with the Shard in plain view, the next it’s hidden behind something. This particular day I’d walked around it and taken numerous photographs before wandering on my way. In
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Natural History Museum – Iconic or Tacky? Museums and art galleries are the essential option for a tour of London. Especially when it’s raining! Our first stop is the Natural History Museum, a Victorian Edifice built to reflect its content, or is it an overkill of decoration. I’ve always admired the Victorian ethos that if
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Seeing the Millennium Dome for the first time besides the Thames you’d be forgiven for thinking it might be the part of some Alien invasion. Another millennium theme, the O2 Arena as it’s now called emerged to some controversy. Sometimes the idea for a painting comes as a concept before the image is decided. Others
Dreams are how things happen! The thought behind this painting of the London Eye was a curiousity about why it was there. Every construction starts with a vision. Be it big or small, an initial idea is needed to direct what becomes reality. To celebrate the year 2000 many monuments were planned and erected. Any
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Stairway to heaven There’s a lady who’s sure All that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway to heaven. Or so the Led Zeppelin song goes and kept on going in my head when I saw this staircase in the Victoria and Albert Museum one year. I said to my friend… “This is going
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