Shut in 1981, the monolithic Giles Gilbert Scott-designed mid-century power station Bankside re-opened in 2000...
Southeast London · Bankside, London
Stately but somehow not grand in its position perched above Trafalgar Square — and seemingly oblivious to the...
Central London · Trafalgar Square, London
Less critical to the local Whitechapel community than it once was, the publicly funded Whitechapel Gallery nevertheless...
East London · 80 Whitechapel High St, London
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
One of London's more maligned skyscrapers, the so-called Walkie-Talkie (20 Fenchurch St) devotes its top three...
East London · 20 Fenchurch St, The City, London
A 21st-century theatre company whose productions consistently have won or been nominated for awards since it took...
Southeast London · 53 Southwark St, London
Opened in 2008, this Jeremy Dixon/Edward Jones-designed arts-and-office complex features London's first new...
Northeast London · 90 York Way, Kings Cross, London