The Park in Summer

Great Portland Street: Becoming a Hub of Cycling Emporia - and Creativity

Like Oxford Street itself, it is also a street of beautiful gabled architecture.

An Unusual Angle on Waterloo Bridge

One of the massive abutments supporting Waterloo Bridge from the north with the staircase through it and the approach road (Lancaster Place) above.

Somerset House: The beautiful terrace rooms that face the river are showing Hawksmoor Churches - Nicholas Hawksmoor: Methodical Imaginings.

Curation Mohsen Mostafavi
Architectural photographs Hélène Binet

Interior of Terrace Room © Sally Crawford 2013

A review of the Summer Showcase exhibition Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the 1920s will appear in The Crawford Arts Review.

Londoners Escape Down the Wormhole to the Cool of Regent's Park

They're visitors but they haven't been slow in finding one of the best spots.

Duck Island Cottage, complete with dovecotes and delphiniums, in St James's Park at the weekend

With All This Heat, Some Londoners Have Decided To Take Time Out

New Bus For London in St Martin's Place

Very nice looking bus - and the AirCon was working yesterday when I tried it. My route was not quite so cool and scenic as in the above picture of the tree-lined section of road opposite the National Portrait Gallery. No, it was Victoria Street, an irritable amalgam of rushed people going nowhere very fast until we got north of Trafalgar Square. My experience of the bus was that the stairs are extremely solid and pleasurable to negotiate and the upper deck feels - how can I put it - it has the all potential to transport that a train or plane has since you are above it all for a moment. On the lower deck, I sat next to a Chinese lawyer on her way to the Supreme Court and visibly but very politely appalled by the lack of speed on Victoria Street. On the upper deck, I sat next to a visitor from New Zealand who mentioned Wuppertal a lot (apparently they have a transport system where the rapid transit cars are suspended on a monorail - a Sky Tram - 8 m (26.25 ft) above the streets and whizz around unencumbered by other traffic getting in their way. (Must be cheaper to install than tramways I imagine but just as efficient perhaps.) I noted the stopped vehicles at each set of traffic lights and the average count included: 4-5 buses, old and new; 10-11 vans of various sizes; 8-9 taxis, often empty; 5-6 private cars; 2 or 3 brave cyclists. The people making the best speed were the walkers. Time: 2.30 pm, Tuesday 09 July.

Just Flowers Next to Someone's Dustbin