BLOGGING FOR LONDON

The Institute of Neurology, Queen Square. This original building dates from the 1950s.

Russell Square displays its autumn colours

Just a thought in passing: all London Squares, in my opinion, should be open like this one so that people can use them as calm, refreshing walk throughs to avoid the roads. Hopefully, organizations and individuals will listen.

C o n c r e t e

The buildings of Sir Denys Lasdun do not lend themselves to softness but here the Institute of Education has done its best.

Giving my inner art critic an airing

A visit to the Wallace Collection and the new paintings by Damien Hirst.

Rebuilding at the western end of Oxford Street . . .

has revealed this early warehouse building.

This bird's address is a certain London Square

. . . and here it is on security duty.

The old, the innovative, and the new

An Amanda Levete building lights up the darkness in Hill's Place off Oxford Street.

Urban space precision: Oxford Crossing

London's autumn

Transforming a narrow passageway

Look at the way that narrow perimeter strip (and a good, light-reflecting surface) widen this passageway?