Battle lines have been drawn at Smithfield Market, on the fringes of the City, as developers have submitted plans to transform derelict Victorian buildings into a new area of restaurants, shops and offices. The Smithfield Quarter Scheme, backed by fund management group Henderson Global Property Investors, would see […]
While tourists dominate at the weekend in Greenwich, during the week there is an influx of students. That’s because since 1998, the University of Greenwich and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance have occupied the buildings that for more than a century were home to the Royal […]
Maritime and Greenwich are two words that often go hand in hand. And given the area’s sea-faring past it’s not hard to see why. Within reach of Greenwich, dockyards were created more than 500 years ago that quite literally built the modern Navy. This was also where for […]
Strolling into the British Museum’s latest exhibition, Ice Age: Arrival of the modern mind, you could be forgiven for asking why this long-established institution has resorted to displaying modern art, rather than the ancient pieces that it is famed for around the world. That’s because, from a distance, […]
Plans have been unveiled this week for Crossrail 2 – a £12bn route running north-south, from Cheshunt and Alexandra Palace in north London to centres including Epsom, Shepperton, and Twickenham in the south west. The new lines would create around 100,000 extra journeys during the morning peak period, […]
Walking into Dolphin Square in Pimlico feels like entering a football stadium, except instead of rows of seats you are surrounded by apartments. In the centre, the pitch if you like, there are landscaped gardens with an ornamental fountains in a pond as a centre piece. Accommodation is […]
Look through the Evening Standard’s property pages and you’ll find that a riverside apartment in Pimlico does not come cheap. There are, for example, flats for sale at a development called Grosvenor Waterfront for upwards of £1m. And with the ways things are going, the new buildings springing […]
Spies and art lovers pass like ships in the night in Millbank these days. MI5 and MI6 aim keep a low public profile in grand buildings by the Thames, while tourists flock to Tate Britain and students study at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, part of […]
Ask anyone who knows London what they understand by the term Whitehall and, more likely than not, they’ll tell you it’s the seat of the British government. And they wouldn’t be wrong – through just a short walk you can take in Downing Street, the Ministry of Defence, […]
Berlin has all the ingredients required to be one of the world’s greatest capital cities – a fascinating history, brilliant museums, expansive parks, public transport that works and nightlife that it is hard to beat. In a sense visitors to Germany’s capital today get two cities in one. […]
Past In The Present 