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Bloomberg Building
Bloomberg’s new offices in London is nearly complete with the building already partly in use. The Building is constructed to the highest possible environmentally friendly standards (at the time of writing). So whilst appearing to be a shades of bronze and gold it is actually very green. Architect Norman foster and owner Bloomberg set out…
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Rathbone Square
One of the newest mixed commercial residential projects in London is Rathbone Square. A large development just off Oxford street, Rathbone Square contains flats, restaurants and the offices soon to be occupied by Facebook. Traversing through the jade arches on either side of the square removes one from London and plants them within a secluded…
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Bath
Bath, famous for it’s stone and the Roman Baths. The picturesque village of Bath, Somerset lays atop a geothermic hot spring that drew the Romans to settle, develop and ultimately name her. The other world famous part of Bath is the stone. Much of Bath is constructed of the beautiful pale yellow bricks. As an…
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Down House
Down House is beautiful stately home in the village of Downe, Kent. The former home of Charles Darwin is now managed by English Heritage and is open for visitors. Well known for his theory of evolution detailed in the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin would have written much of his works here. Down House was…
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Paris
There is not much that hasn’t already been said about Paris and my short trip will hardly lift the veil on some cool undiscovered area unless you were not aware of Disneyland or the meaning of cool. I’d still like to share some photos from my trip. The first place of note is Palais du…
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Hockwold Hall
Hockwold Hall, Norfolk, is a former regal residence occupied by Princes, Knights, Earls and Politicians. The site is noted in the Domesday book making it almost a millennium in age. The current building was constructed in 1895 and is presently used for formal events. I visited Hockwold Hall this passed weekend for a wedding to…
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Dartmoor
Dartmoor national park in the south west of England is an area of natural beauty that had previously been a very abundant granite mine. Throughout the park are various reservoirs with large dams. The oldest dam still standing on the park produces the Tottiford reservoir from the Trenchford Stream and built in 1861. The dam…
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Margate.
Shoreditch by Sea, a new nickname to show how cool Margate has become. The Starring attraction to the Victorian era beach resort is The Turner Contemporary Museum, a modern development that like the bow of a ship is the direction Margate is heading (I think it sort of looks like a bow, maybe it does…