Day 288 – But a view
“Life is but a view through a window. We are that window.” ~ Joseph Rain This was taken in stairwell between the two viewing platform inside the Shard. I just loved the light and the […]
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“Life is but a view through a window. We are that window.” ~ Joseph Rain This was taken in stairwell between the two viewing platform inside the Shard. I just loved the light and the […]
“There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.” ~ Vivienne Westwood I suspect this might be true of a few major cities in the world that are steeped in culture, history and iconic views […]
“London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair Lady.” Except it is not. Well not anymore. Although it has a long history of being in poor disrepair. […]
“Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies […]
“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you’ve lived in one all your life.” ~ Kate Milford This is definitely true of London. I have lived in […]
“Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.” ~ Maximillian Degenerez Sadly we seem to live in world where facts seem to have been replaced with soundbites […]
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus” ~ William Shakespeare This is the beautiful Clifton Suspension Bridge. It spans the Avon gorge and links the city of Bristol to Clifton on […]
Despite what this says it is no longer a night safe but is now just a little part of history of the town of Rye in East Sussex. Once upon this was indeed Barclays Bank […]
“Brutalist architecture arouses passion and fury in equal measure. Of all the styles of housing in London, none is more polarising.” ~ Kate Watson-Smyth It is easy to look at this building, a perfect example […]
“I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” – Noël Coward I wonder what Noël Coward would make of London today. I bet he never envisioned it […]