ABSTRACT

London is a living architectural exhibition. This handy pocket guide:
* aids navigation of the city’s greatest sights with a clear map-based format
* features more than 260 buildings, with full notes and references
* provides a superb full colour photographic record of the capital

London's Contemporary Architecture is a practical and highly illustrated guide to the best modern buildings. Now in its fourth edition, this location-based book has been fully updated to cover the latest additions to the London skyline.

This guide looks at London district by district. It identifies the buildings most worth visiting and offers essential information about the selected architectural gems. Packed with fascinating informative commentary and useful location maps, it also includes examples of London's finer older buildings that are found near to the key contemporary sites.

chapter |19 pages

Who is the guide The City for?

London’s architectural geography: page 5 Contemporaneity: page 9 Meetings with buildings: page 11 pages 12 — 61

chapter |2 pages

le coq on Poultry

chapter |3 pages

an exercise in continuity

chapter |2 pages

enigmatic exotica

chapter |7 pages

Plantation Place

chapter |1 pages

edge city

chapter |1 pages

Reuters on steroids

chapter |5 pages

a battle of giants

chapter |2 pages

haunted modernism

chapter |7 pages

strange twins at the portal

chapter |2 pages

a fearful assemble

chapter |4 pages

City pride

chapter |22 pages

hope at the bridge threshold

chapter |2 pages

heart surgery

chapter |14 pages

Post-Modern manners

chapter |12 pages

Road development corridor

chapter |7 pages

creation, obliteration, and reinvention

chapter 75|68 pages

Curiosities