Architecture in London

History and culture on a grand scale

One of Britain's most vital and visited attractions is not, as the name suggests, British-specific. In fact very...

Central London · Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London

• museum
• art gallery

Major arts destination

An impressive if infuriatingly convoluted brutalist-style arts complex, the Barbican Centre (opened in 1982) was...

East London · Silk St, London

• theater
• art gallery
• cinema

Mostly gothic church with important people buried in it

Major, spectacular and cherished church with a convoluted past, Westminster Abbey was built in the 13th, 16th and...

Central London · 20 Dean's Yard, London

Inspiring botanical landmark

Formally known as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this hugely popular London destination spreads itself across 300...

Southwest London · Kew Rd, Richmond, Surrey

Icon of icons

Also known as the Houses of Parliament, this mostly 1850s gothic-style beauty by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin is...

Central London · St Margaret's, 20 Dean's Yard, London

Gays love beautiful Victorian interiors

One of central London's more striking best kept secrets, the friendly and welcoming Two Temple Place is a late...

Central London · 2 Temple Place, Temple, London

• museum
• art gallery

Gays love decor

An East London museum in a category of its own, chronicling the changing style of the English domestic interior...

East London · 136 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, London

• museum

Romantic Victorian gothic getaway

Opened in 1839 and designed by Stephen Geary, Highgate Cemetery is usually recalled by visitors as one of their more...

North London · Swain's Lane, Highgate, London

Major 1950s-period mostly classical concert hall

Opened in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain (a welcomed and needed postwar cultural redevelopment), the Royal...

Central London · Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London

• performance

Preserved domestic space with antiquities and treasures

A favourite among London visitors, the seemingly untouched home of neo-classical architect John Soane...

Central London · 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, London

• museum
• art gallery