I’ve learnt a lot exploring London’s architecture by myself on different transport services. There has been a diverse range of styles and periodic buildings. Many have been influenced by eastern architecture and many of the modern buildings in London now use glass and steel for the main building materials. I thoroughly enjoyed going round St Paul’s […]

  The British museum is a mixture between modern and Greek architecture. The frame is made purely of steel and it has been filled with London stock brick and faced with Portland stone. The shape of the building is of a quadrangle, it is divided into 4 separate wings, like a compass, South, East North […]

From the 23rd to the 27th of March I went on a self-managed tour of London. I started off in north Greenwich station, my aim was to get from there to St Paul’s, and then from St Paul’s to the gherkin, then to The British Museum, after that to the GLA building and from there […]

  Millennium Dome was built in the year 2000 and was opened for 1 year as a public attraction. It was left empty and disused for 7 years and so was sold to the company AEG who bought it for entertainment purposes and as a tourist attraction for public use, it is now called the […]

On the Wednesday I visited 30 St Mary Axe, the Gherkin, which have very high security and didn’t give me much information about the building. It was designed in 2000 to 2001 and construction finished in 2003 where it opened in April 2004. The main architect was Norman Foster and he worked with Skanska who […]

St Paul’s cathedral is a stunning piece of masonry architecture situated in the centre of the busy city of London. The dome of the cathedral is seen from miles and is a centrepiece for the city skyline, but is also said that the dome is to having nothing obstructing its view from the landscape and […]