City of London
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance