Last night on my way to New Globe Walk, St Paul's: quiet, lots of people walking, lots of people shopping, birdsong, misty rain and roses.

The Rushing Londoner On One of the Beautiful Streets Leading Down to Trafalgar Square and Charing Cross

A New View of Reality After Seeing the Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure Exhibition At the National Gallery Sainsbury Wing

The Sainsbury Wing where a new exhibition combines the art of Johannes Vermeer and his Dutch contemporaries with musical instruments of the time, songbooks and music from the Academy of Ancient Music. The Crawford Arts Review will carry an appraisal at a later date.

Just 'Space' But So Well Defined . . .

This is the courtyard of the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey I showed earlier. Everything in the architect's toolbox has been used to define the space well: the setts, the vertical steel fencing, the white-blocking of the building opposite. Even straggly elements like the cable snaking its way horizontally across the side elevation of the white building seem to integrate themselves into the scheme. Hats off I say to Casper Mueller Kneer. 

Regent's Park During The Food Festival At The Weekend

What's Going On In Trafalgar Square?

Looks interesting passing it in the bus.

Elderflowers in Hyde Park

Remodelling a Soho Courtyard

People Art: Tariq and Kate at White Cube Bermondsey

Crafty Art in Bermondsey Street

. . . on the way to the White Cube Gallery, someone has fashioned a statement piece for a junk shop window display.

An Early English Building That Prefigures Catalan Modernism

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Was it built by a Spanish monk? Waverley Abbey was the foundation abbey of the Cistercian Order in England in 1148. They are a Roman Catholic Order of enclosed monks and nuns (Trappists). Austere as their order is, they must have delighted in the sinuous naturalistic beauty their builders gave them. The Abbey lies 2 miles SE of Farnham in Surrey.

Spooky light on part of St Pancras International, the section next to the British Library

Architect George Gilbert Scott.

The Architecture of the Flower

Agapanthus

New Perspective on Brave New Architecture

Regent's Place, NW1

and facing you when you emerge from that designer corridor?

This:

Between these two dreams-into-reality-scapes lies the Euston Road – but, happening now, even such unlovelinesses as the Euston Road can be redesigned to lift the hearts of all of London's people.

Perfectly Italianate: Can You Guess What Building This Is?

Trees with Skirts

In the above example, the trees have been severely cropped and have grown leaves out from the base of their trunks in order to take in enough carbon dioxide to sustain themselves.

Here trees have been planted with their base surrounded by box hedge (Buxus sempervirens) trimmed into an undulating shape.

In this third example, the tree has been so severely cropped it has died or is dormant.

London Improving

An Old Loft Building Refurbished –- and Bikes

Café Table & Chair, or Art Installation?

Scaffolding As Street Art

Old Soho Georgian in the Background, 1960s Concrete in the Foreground

Someone has done their best with foliage, but you really can't do much with one of these.