The Pan Pacific London hotel on Bishopsgate claims to have London's tallest Christmas tree right outside. We haven't measured ...

The great strength and innovation of Harry Beck's original Tube map was its schematic approach. Stations were not plotted ...

Smith opened a confectionary shop in Goswell Road sometime around 1840. During a sugary reconnaissance trip to Paris, he got ...

London does Christmas lights very well indeed, from the world-famous illuminations on Oxford Street and Regent Street, to ...

Continuing our series on London's greatest murals. One should never make assumptions, but we feel confident in declaring this ...

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Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. The Grapes is yet another classic riverside pub in an area replete with such things, and it also has a modest pedigree ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. One of London's most famous pubs, and supposedly our city's oldest riverside inn. With a pedigree stretching back to ...

You could easily walk past the AITF without ever realising that you just missed one of the area's most beautiful pubs. The outside is plain in the extreme — almost studiously uninteresting.

The Angel is an unreformed survival from another age. It perches isolated on the river wall, opposite the remains of Edward III's palace (of which it used to be part, on a diagonally opposite site).

In the world of architecture, Channel Four's new headquarters (by Richard Rogers and Partners) was a high-tech televisual ...