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Dec 7th, 2002 | 06:14 PM

Angela

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I'm an architect visiting London for the first time this Christmas. My travel companions and I are interested in visiting London's most inspiring spatial designs, both classic and modern. Any specific suggestions on areas or buildings that are worth seeing? We are also looking into hotels in London, preferrably design hotels with chic bars. Are there anything similar to the Ian Schragers (aka Sanderson and St Martins Lane)? Thanks in advance for the info!

Dec 7th, 2002 | 06:57 PM

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A question on these lines on this forum some months ago gave these results. A private house beside the railway line north from Kings Cross, whose architect owners built large parts of it out of straw insulation with a quilted covering. Not open to view. See http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...gns/index.html has among other things a walk-through animation (follow the links >London>Islington). British Library. Good and lavish use of brickwork in an age of steel. Kings cross tube Hungerford pedestrian bridge. Embankment tube Eurostar terminal, seen from outside. Waterloo tube Barbican. Forty years old now, but still a striking plan. Try the walk at second floor level from the Museum of London to the Arts centre, and at that centre have a coffee on the lakeside. Barbican tube Tate Modern. Recycling of an empty power station. Blackfriars tube Millennium Bridge. Blackfriars tube Paternoster Square, north of St Paul's, is promising, but not yet open. St Paul?s tube Baltic Exchange building, also known as the erotic gherkin (it is a large round tower) Lloyds of London building. Lloyd's building. A kind of mini Centre Pompidou. Liverpool street tube City Hall, for the Greater London Authority, opposite the Tower, the glass testicle. There are special weekend opening times to allow visits to parts of the building not normally open to the general public: see http://www.london.gov.uk/approot/gla...nd_opening.jsp. London Bridge tube Canary Wharf. Perhaps derivative of Manhattan. But the underground stations of the Jubilee Line from Westminster to Stratford are worth examination one by one. Canary Wharf tube Useful websites on modern architecture in London are: http://www.londonopenhouse.org/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/maxfiles/maxfiles_index.shtml the Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA), http://www.architecture.com continued

Dec 7th, 2002 | 06:59 PM

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contyinued http://www.architecture.com/go/SearchResults.html leads to 38. Bloomfield Court, London, SE18 Architects: Walter Menteth Architects Client: Ujima Housing Association Ltd Contractor: Benson Ltd Structural Engineers: Barton Engineers M&E Engineers: Pearce Associates Contract Value: £810,000 Nominated for the RIBA Client of the Year Award 39. The Dulwich Picture Gallery Architects: Rick Mather Architects 020 7284 1727 Client: Dulwich Picture Gallery Contractor: R Durtnell & Sons Structural Engineers: Dewhurst McFarlane & Partners Building Services: Andrew Reid & Partners Contract Value: £6,000,000 Nominated for the Crown Estate Conservation Award 40. The Green Bridge, Mile End Architects: CZWG Architects Client: The Environment Trust Contractor: Fitzpatrick Contractors LtdStructural Engineers

ingham Cotterell M&E Fulcrum Consulting Landscaping: Tower Hamlets Landscape Dept & Community Land Use Ltd Contract Value: £5,800,000 Nominated for the RIBA Journal Sustainability Award 41. The Lawns, 16 South Grove, London N6 Architects: Eldridge Smerin Client: Frances Newell & John Sorrell Contractor: Bradford Watts Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Contract Value: £1.1 million Nominated for The Architects' Journal First Building Award 42. National Portrait Gallery extension Architects: Dixon.Jones Client: National Portrait Gallery Contractor: Norwest Holst Structural, M&E, Accoustic Engs: Ove Arup & Partners Contract Value: £13.2 million Nominated for the RIBA Client of the Year Award Nominated for the ADAPT Trust Access Award Nominated for the Crown Estate Conservation Award 43. Battersea Apartment, London, SW11 Architects: Patel Taylor Client: Ian Hobson Contractor: Claremont Construction Structural Engineers: Alan Conisbee & Associates Services Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Contract Value: £500,000 44. Plashet School Footbridge Plashet Grove London E6 Architects: Birds Portchmouth Russum Client: London Borough of Newham Contractor: C Spencer Ltd Structural Engineers: Techniker Contract value: £530,000 Photography: Birds Portchmouth Russum 45. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Architects:Avery Associates Architects 020 7233 6262 Client: Nick Barter RADA Contractor: Laing Limited Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Services Engineers: Roger Preston & Partners Contract Value: £17,000,000 Nominated for the Crown Estate Conservation Award Nominated for the ADAPT Trust Access Award continued

Dec 7th, 2002 | 07:02 PM

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continued 46.The Surgery, 1 Hammersmith Bridge Road, London W6 Architects: Guy Greenfield Architects 020 7248 5533 Client: West London Health Estates Contractor: Benson Ltd Structural engineers: Cooper Associates M&E engineers: KUT Partnership Contract Value: £1,156,000 Nominated for The Architects' Journal First Building Award 47.Thames Barrier Park, North Woolwich Road, London E16 Architects: Patel Taylor Client: London Development Agency Contractor: May Gurney (Construction) Ltd Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Landscape Architects: Group Signe Contract Value: £12,500,000 Photography: Martin Jones Contact: Tim Griggs 020 7680 2021 48. Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum Architects: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Client: National Museum of Science & Industry Contractor: Kier Build Limited Structural & Services Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Contract Value: £21.7 million 49.Portcullis House and Westminster Underground Station Architects: Michael Hopkins & Partners Client: Parliamentary Works Directorate / London Underground Ltd Contractor: Laing Management / Balfour Beatty Amec Civil & Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners / G Maunsell & Partners Contract Value: £235 million / £20 million I can list you great Victorian hotels of London, but am afraid I am no help on design hotels. Otherwise, please write if I can help further. Welcome to London. Ben Haines

Dec 7th, 2002 | 07:20 PM

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You ask about fine spaces, of any period. We are not short of these in London. Medieval The Guildhall St Bartholomew the Great Church Southwark Cathedral Westminster Hall Baroque and Georgian Banquetting Hall Whitehall The great room at the Royal Society of Arts (but please phone first) The courtyard of Somerset House The Wren churches. I specially like St Ann and St Agnes: try a lunchtime concert. I specially dislike St Pauls Cathedral, a large and heavy place The Chapel of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich The salons of Syon House, Chiswick and Ham House, Richmond Victorian The Natural History Museum The Betjeman restaurant in the Charing Cross Hotel The Patent Office Library The Law Courts in the Strand St Pancras Chambers (former Hotel) The hotel on Portland Place The Palm House at Kew The chapel of Kings College London Leadenhall Market Hay's Gallery Ben Haines

Dec 8th, 2002 | 01:39 AM

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I found St Martin's in the Field to be very interesting.

Dec 9th, 2002 | 01:33 PM

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I would like to visit Thames Barrier Park sometime this week. Could someone tell me how to get there by public transport from central London? Thank you in advance.

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Dec 9th, 2002 | 01:35 PM

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The new Hungerford Footbridges are really beautiful in the night.

Dec 9th, 2002 | 01:48 PM

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I'm not sure they'll still have information available, but have a look on the web for details regarding the annual architectural open house in London (usually around the 3rd Saturday in September). While some of these places are only open to the public for open house, the list and description might give you some good ideas. Start with http://www.londonopenhouse.org/weekend.html This site allows you to search for information on specific buildings, as well as giving you this year's brochure. And it probably has links to other useful sites.

Dec 12th, 2002 | 01:06 AM

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There is an excellent exhibition on the projects of Miles Van Der Rohe at Whitechapel Art Gallery till March 2003. There are serveral interesting new buildings under construction between Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street area.

Dec 12th, 2002 | 03:55 AM

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For Jc Your fastest way to see the Barrier is probably the Docklands Light Railway from Bank or Tower Gateway to Custom House, then change to go one stop to Silvertown. If you go two stops to North Woolwich you can enjoy a small railway museum and the view of the Barrage from the Woolwich free ferry. If you have a London travel card for the right zones you can then go back westwards south of the Thames on the suburban railway from Woolwich Arsenal. From Greenwich to London Bridge this runs over the fine brickwork of the Irish navvies under he first commuter railway in the world, opened 1837. 90 seconds after you leave Greenwich, to the north of the train, you see St Paul?s church Deptford, a jewel of the English Baroque, and five minutes after that, also to the north, Tower Bridge, the Tower, and the office of the Mayor of London. Over the road from London Bridge are the developments to Southwark Cathedral, which RIBA likes but I do not. I have collected on disc points made in this correspondence so far, plus the choices for 2001 of the Royal Institute of British Architects, arranged in topological order with notes of public transport, and shall gladly e-mail this to you or anybody who asks me. Welcome to London Ben Haines

Dec 12th, 2002 | 09:42 AM

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Dear Mr Haines, many thanks for the reply, I went to Thames Barrier yesterday by buses 188 and 177,came back by train from Greenwich to London Bridge as your suggestion. If not in a hurry, I enjoy traveling around London by buses:the sreet sights, different periods of architecture,different villages,so many things to see. I went to Leighton House this morning. The Arab Hall in the house is very interesting with beautiful tile works. There is an Islarmic collection exhibition. I would be very grateful if you could send me a copy of your disc., my e-mail address:[email protected] Thank you in advance. Judy