The City of London Corporation’s planning and transport committee has just given the go-ahead for 1 Undershaft, a 73-storey/290-metre skyscraper in the City of London. It will be the second tallest building in Western Europe, after The Shard on the other side of the Thames. The Museum...
The National Army Museum has saved T E Lawrence’s dagger, robes and kaffiyah for the nation thanks to two grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) totalling £113,400. Lawrence was given the dagger, known as a jambiya, by Sherif Nasir in 1917 after the victory of...
Normally I would not be featuring art on Mechtraveller, but this is geeky & cool! I came across it last night in the lobby of the Conrad London St. James hotel. They have a number of artworks. This is one of them. The House Always Wins. Artwork...
The London Festival of Railway Modelling is a 2-day annual event that takes place every spring at Alexandra Palace in North London, drawing this year just under 10,000 model railway enthusiasts, and often their loved ones (sometimes less enthusiastically!), from all over the South East and further afield....
Truthfully? the Soane Museum is not somewhere I would have visited normally. Art history, or in this case, architecture history, is outside my core interest zone. To make matters worse, the visit did not start well, and I was irritated from the off. I don’t like queuing,...
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