The ‘BM’ is one of the world’s great museums housing some 8,000,000 exhibits and welcoming some 6,000,000 visitors each year – which I can quite believe, half-term school holiday week is quite horrid.
Anyway, the back entrance is really rather grand, with its sleeping lions and the Greek Revival façade.
The other evening I enjoyed a personal tour of Nike Town London with one of the principle ‘architects’ of its creation, Ms Sophie Jourlait-Filéni, now a marketing colleague of mine at BBC Worldwide.
Nike Town might be a really good place to go do some drawings!
Meanwhile enjoy this homage to Nike click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hozw9qU3nP8
In 1962, while still being built, the BT Tower overtook St Paul's Cathedral to become the tallest building in London at a total height to 190 metres (620 ft) - height includes pointy ariel bit.
Once they finished it the BT Tower was taller thank the Millbank Tower down by the River SW1 (which had been put up faster) to once again become the tallest building in the country, titles it held until 1980 when the Nat West Tower in the City was completed.
Centre Point, a concrete and glass ghost rising up skyward on a dull grey day.
Situated at the eastern end of Oxford Street, that almost sits on top of Tottenham Court Road tube station on the site of a Gallows.
This icon was built by Wimpey Construction in 1963 with its 34 floor and 400 feet high.
