Juxtaposition

One thing that London does, perhaps better than any other city, is to juxtapose the old and new – as this image of 30 St Mary’s Axe (“The Gherkin”) demonstrates. There are many iconic buildings in London, and it always appears to me that they...

One Canada Square

Framed by the high density council high-rise towers of Stockwell where I live, sits the incredible excess of the financial services sector – once seen as the post-colonial ‘saviour’ of London and now regarded more as a necessary evil. A big part of...