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The observation deck on Europe’s tallest building will open to the public in February 2013, only a year after the tower is ‘topped out’. At the time of writing the construction process is almost complete from the outside, with only the cladding on the spire – above the observatory – remaining.  The building will appear to be complete before the London 2012 Olympic Games in July, but will take

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One of the most tragic things about 20th Century architecture in London is that there were a whole host of beautiful old buildings that were demolished, not by WW2 bombs, but by 60s planners. St. Pancras was fortunately saved from this fate thanks to the likes of John Betjeman. Euston Station, just down the road, wasn’t so fortunate. In 1961 the grand Great Hall of Euston Station was swept away,

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During the second world war, the Palace of Westminster was hit by bombs fourteen times. The most serious attack occurred on the night of 10-11 May 1941. On that night the Palace was severely damaged, the chamber of the House of Commons was destroyed and three people were killed. (ABOVE: Barbed wire defences in Parliament Square, and the shattered south face of Westminster Clock Tower.) The

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A few weeks ago the first steel column of the superstructure for Europe’s tallest building was concreted into the ground at London Bridge Station. (Images below show the progress of last few weeks).   After a decade (!) of legal, political, planning and financial (thank the Credit Crunch) struggles, there is now no turning back. The Shard of Glass will be completed by the Olympics and will

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Today marks just 3 years until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games; London 2012. I have been following the huge project since 2002 when it wasn’t even certain that we would bid for the games or not. London surprised everyone by beating Paris to the grand prize in July 2005 only for our celebrations to be cut short the following day by the terrorist bombs. Fast forward to today and it is

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Recently I discovered some old photographs of Baker Street Station from the 1920s. These were taken before the grand building of today was built above the Metropolitan line platforms; replacing a number of shops, houses and the beautiful Leslie Green entrance around the corner. The photo above shows the original station on Marylebone Road (facing towards Euston). This is the same view today

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I’ve always felt that the Science Museum in South Kensington was a little lost cousin compared to the Natural History Museum and the V&A. This, due to being largely hidden away and also having a lack of landmark entrance to pull people in from the street. This is all set to change by the look of some radical new proposals released this week to give the museum’s facade an attention seeking

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You have probably all seen the clip of Stephen Fry being interviewed on MPs expenses by now. In it he brought some much needed and previously absent common sense to the whole furore. Well today the controversial character of Piers Morgan has waded in saying that Mr. Fry’s views are “extremely stupid” and “naive”. Morgan continues to patronise: So let me spell out the difference for him in

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  Photos taken by myself in London a few weeks ago. I challenge anyone to guess where each of these where taken. The 3rd row is the same location. The 1st and last photo are the same location. Photo 7 is one palace away from the second row. Cryptic enough? :-P

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This is an issue which has struck me in the last few years, and it is ever present in all walks of life. I’m talking about too much say from too many people in too many areas. What do I mean by that? Well the continued ‘politically correct’ submission to the lowest common denominator in decision making; be it planning, politics or public service. Why can we not trust the experts in their

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Some spectacular slow motion footage has been taken for the first time of a surfer inside a breaking wave. This is a clip from the BBC’s new series, ‘South Pacific’

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One of the remarkable credit-crunch defying skyscrapers going up in London at the moment is the Heron Tower. As you can see in this photo construction work has long since started and the superstructure is about a 3rd of the way to it’s final height. On the skyline it will appear as dominant as the Gherkin and Tower42 (NatWest tower to those who haven’t caught up yet!) Found this corporate video

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A new series of photographs from Boston.com – I’m a big fan of this site & will continue to bring you updates. More at: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/human_landscapes_from_above.html

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New York City is full of advertisements and billboards as you know, but a fair chunk of them have not been authorised and thus residents and visitors are submitted to even more advertising which is illegal. Thus pro-humanity campaign group ‘Public Ad Campaign’ have organised a project with many volunteers whom set out this week to white-wash hundreds of illegal ads and then replace them with

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The United Kingdom has some of the most historical and awe-inspiring Crown Jewels in the world. Treasures that would never, ever, come together in today’s politically fair and correct culture, but fortunately they have done over centuries past, and thus remain for us to cast the greatest dignity and majesty upon our heads of state. Despite the fact the post is hereditary, I believe they do a

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You do have to worry occasionally about Gordon.

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  The possibilities are endless!

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New photo today of the Southern end of the Olympic Park which shows the Stadium at the top which is progressing swiftly.In the centre are the widened and cleaned up waterways. A total transformation to the grotty overgrown and stagnant water of before. Then at the bottom of the photograph is the Aquatics Centre. Progress on its magnificent Zaha Hadid designed roof is going well. The scale is

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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/ The above links to a petition to prompt the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to resign, via his own website. Quite ironic really but because it’s so simple I think this may actually take off. The amount of signatures is going up by several hundred people per hour and if this rate continues for just a week it will be the largest petition on the site – that

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“Very few people have the time, skill or inclination to create beauty, but we all appreciate it when it presents itself.”

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I don’t normally follow these sort of things but I was linked to this video and it’s pretty funny if you know anything about youth behaviour on the internet. The kind of stuff that brought you ‘rofl’ and ‘w00t’ etc. This video takes the mick out of the ‘everyone has an opinion (and a stupid one at that)’ culture. Cool music too!

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Well, perhaps… judge for yourself! We stumbled across this tree stump in the Lake District on the way to Aire Force waterfall. I presume it is an art piece; a nice idea actually but it must have taken ages to hammer in all those coins! As you can see my sister was delighted…

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Right along-side the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Bridge sits the unusual yet inconspicuous building of Portcullis House. Few people realise what goes on inside or what it’s there for. It is virtually an extension to the Houses of Parliament linked by underground tunnels, and to neighbouring buildings by elevated foot bridges. (Portcullis House is the black building on the left in the

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Hmm, I have to say that I am not impressed with the protestors at today’s G20 demonstrations in the City. “Money is for losers”, “Property is theft”, people hailing the death of Canary Wharf and the rise of Power to the People. Are these people deluded? I understand that many of the people protesting aren’t anarchists etc but there are a lot who are and it’s a real shame that they are so

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Hey all, busy busy busy! About to head back up North to spend Easter with my family in Warwick. This weekend though I’m going for my first visit to the Lake District. Have driven through before but never stayed there so it should be fun. Reason to go is for my father’s 50th birthday which is actually tomorrow. Will report back with some photos hopefully, oh, and Happy April Fools Day! This isn’t

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Taken by myself from the Greenway last week.

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Today I had a walk around the perimeter of the Olympic Park. Not great weather for it but fascinating to view the largest construction site in Europe. Seems very efficient to me and very organised too. Here are a few photos of the Stadium progress…

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Today it’s an update for The Shard (or London Bridge Tower its real name).   As you can see, they’ve now completely cleared the site of Southwark Towers and have now started the cofferdamming of a square that will eventually be excavated to form the base for the 300m core.

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Well I promised that I’d update the blog with results from my experiment so here goes: Firstly there are diagrams showing the spread of the confetti and then following that an arrow map of the estimated wind intensity...         The above graphic is then the result of all the others; basically a flow map extrapolated from other diagrams.

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Today I had the fantastic opportunity to ascend the Palace of Westminster clock tower. The tour started from Portcullis House (where all the MPs offices are) across the road from Parliament. From here I was led by my tour guide down a pair of smart escalators and through a wonderful tunnel under the road that links the building to the palace. In this smart white tiled tunnel, which must be many

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Sorry for lack of blogging again. Anyway just came on to show a photo of the lovely sunset sky in West London this evening. Some of the lines are probably forming on the flight paths into Heathrow. Indeed occasionally you see a spiral of cloud form, showing the stacking procedure in action. P.S. Happy St. David’s Day!

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Today I have been out and about in Southwark, on the South bank of the Thames in London. It is the site area determined by my tutors – how wise they are – and I’ve been asked to make an instrument to calibrate various unfixed conditions on site. For example: wind, humidity, pH of soil, ground hardness, contour lines etc. I have chosen wind and after my simple turbine instruments ruled too simple

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Photograph taken by me on 2 February 2009. China Town.

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Just amazing. That’s all I can sum it up as. What an experience I’ve had this morning – I’ve never seen anything like it!. I walked straight down the centre of Oxford Street at rush hour. There were no cars about apart from the odd taxi. Then down Regent Street to Piccadilly Circus where there were a few more people milling about. The Victoria Line is the only tube running due to it being the

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Well I went to bed at 3am thinking the snow would all melt swiftly however I’ve just woken up to see it very thick indeed! From my room it looks to be about 12” deep. I think this is ultra rare in London. Also hearing reports that tubes and buses are suspended so it’s looking really good for missing my tutorial today, besides I will even if it’s on because I am not missing a chance like this to

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Hey all, a while since I last blogged so apologies for that! I have a valid excuse though in that I’ve been so busy doing uni work. Having said that I have a really important tutorial tomorrow (or this morning actually), but I’m behind and still working on it now (approaching 3 in the morning). I hate it when this happens – I’m exhausted but so much to do! There’s a flicker of hope and joy

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Well, after Myspace and Facebook I think I’ve found my social network home elsewhere. Namely Twitter. It’s basically just facebook status updates, or “micro-blogging”. If you want to follow me click the link below, sign up, and then click the “follow” button on my profile page. http://twitter.com/LiamHoughton

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Well those of you who do follow me will know that I am a student of Architecture, and today has been the hand-in deadline for the first semester, or term. Unfortunately that has meant that a lot of my time over Christmas has been taken up with work once again (it was the same with January exams at school). Anyway, all handed in now so can relax a bit more - maybe even go to the gym. *gasp* The

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Just stumbled across this totally awesome video. You should enjoy it if you haven't seen it already.

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Well, well, happy new year to you all! May it be healthy and prosperous. I’m having a low-key celebration at my family home in Warwick which is lovely. Still trying to recover from jet lag and so I'm still wide awake. Gosh, it doesn’t seem like yesterday that I was watching the River of Light and Millennium Dome on TV in 2000 – almost a decade!! I better get a move on with my ambitions then.

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Here are a collection of the best photographs which I took on my recent trip to NYC.             

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Well the time has come to head back over the pong from where I came from. I have to say that I've had the most awesome of times here; it's been a great experience and I have made sure that I still have plenty to do... a return trip is a must sometime. In the past couple of days we’ve been to St. Patrick’s cathedral, walked along Brooklyn Bridge which was a very worthwhile experience indeed, and

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Source: Myself today. :)

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Extraordinary. Never thought I'd sit in a Starbucks on Christmas Day! Not as bad as it sounds - the city is alive and buzzing - totally different to what I was expecting. After opening the pressies we went for a long walk in Central Park. Lovely scene. People playing and families chatting, skaters skating and me photographing :P. Beautiful day, not too cold and wonderful blue skies yet again.

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*teeth trembling* COOOOLLLLDDDD!! is how I would describe today... I think my toes are still defrosting. Blue skies again in NYC today however the temperature took a nose-dive to -12C; perhaps the coldest I've witnessed in my 19 years on this Earth... …What then better to take an open-top bus tour!! It was kinda pre-planned but we should have changed it into retrospect. Anyway! Today we took

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Hey all! Just at the end of my second full day here in NYC. What can I say? Just wow. I can certainly see why this and London are considered world cities. They have a totally international culture and have a special wow-factor. Today was a lovely day with beautiful blue skies and not too chilly. Snow seems to have all gone. With this in mind we decided to take the opportunity to ascend the

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Just arrived at a very snowy JFK Airport in the USA! :D First time to New York having only been to Florida in the past. Now sitting in the back of a yellow taxicab travelling in the evening rush hour. Will take about half an hour to get to our hotel in the centre. Will report back in a few days with some photos!

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Last night I wondered down towards the Thames to take in the atmosphere before I leave for New York this weekend. Was lovely, if a bit chilly, down at Trafalgar Square where the Mayor had organised some carol singers from local schools to sing.Parents, tourists and Londoners began to gather around the tree as the singers sang all the usual suspects. It is a time like that where you can really

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Yes, you heard it right, take a look for yourself… The laughter is delightfully like a sitcom.

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Today, as part of my architecture course, I visited Leadenhall Market in the City of London. I had come here before but it was obviously chosen as a place to visit on my course for its almost unique Victorian character. It truly is a wonderful place to stand in, especially during the working week where the City bankers still get their shoes 'shined' by hand under the market's cover. The

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It's a beautiful day and I'm currently having a wonderful walk around the Broadgate Centre, adjacent to Liverpool Street station in central London. The current development is a 1980’s construction of mainly Post-Modern style office blocks arranged around a pedestrian circus. For its era I think that it is actually quite successful, a pleasure to walk around today and its lack of focus on the car

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Photographs taken by myself today.

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My term-term address is:Room 15/DMarylebone Halls of Residence,35 Marylebone Road,London,NW1 5LS

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Last night I moved into my Halls of Residence on Marylebone Road. It's a 21 storey highrise immediately opposite Madame Tussauds. Baker Street tube and Marylebone Station are literally across the road from me and so I can be home in an hour and a half, or in Canary Wharf in 20 minutes on all Jubilee Line. Oxford Street is a 10 minute walk down Baker Street, and Regents Park is just a few minutes

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I've set up this blog as a diary of my time and experiences in London over the next year. I'll hopefully update it as much as possible as I study first year Architecture at the University of Westminster.I'll include personal experiences, my ideas for the city and life, and my Architectual studies also.Happy reading...

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