City of London Approves Brookfield Plan to Double 99 Bishopsgate
The City of London Corporation approved a plan to more than double the size of a financial district office tower close to ...
Three lessons from three great fires
As Los Angeles rebuilds after devastating wildfires, the histories of these three cities offer helpful guidance.
Londoners are paying to live in deserted schools, office blocks and an old cathedral to avoid ‘insane’ rents
Increasing numbers of Londoners are moving into disused properties as “guardians,” lured by fees that are usually much lower ...
London's best brutalist homes — from the Alexandra Road Estate to the Barbican
The raw, polarising world of brutalist architecture has a cult following, and it’s in the spotlight with Brady Corbet’s epic ...
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Looking back at February in history
The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...
Ghosts of past spies haunt London underground tunnels
Behind a blue door in a narrow London passage lies a little-known network of tunnels deep underground, once home to British ...
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The parties in the streets - Sylvia Pankhurst
A short account of the organisation of street parties in the East End of London in 1919, following the conclusion of the armistice in World War One. Pankhurst uses the example of a street party put ...