architecture

Architecture in London

London layers centuries of building on top of each other — and that is precisely what makes it so compelling. The range of what counts as architecture here stretches from the Victorian iron-and-glass of Granary Square along the Regent’s Canal to the deliberate austerity of the British Library. Covent Garden shows how a market hall becomes an icon; Methodist Central Hall, facing Westminster, reveals what Baroque ambition looked like in the Edwardian age. Hatfield House draws you out of the city entirely — and four hundred years back. Reading London through its buildings is the fastest way to understand it.

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