Remembering the City of London’s Big Bang Architecture

For the past six years, I’ve worked right in the heart of the City of London, at 25 Copthall Avenue – for those City veterans that started work in the square mile back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, it is simply known as ‘the old Flemings building’, given that it once served as…

Revealing the original tiling at 224, Muswell Hill Broadway

If there’s one element of architectural detailing that I appreciate beyond all others, it’s decorative tiling – among my most treasured possessions is Doug Rose’s incredible book, ‘Tiles of the Unexpected’, which provides an unrivalled study of the near-two million tiles that were fitted to the ticket halls, passages and platforms of the three deep-level…