Starting & finishing at the hotel we have 3 great cycle tours for you to choose from. Royal Tour / Design & Architecture / Fashion & Cake. Which one will you choose to taste the best of LDN's sites? Read more.
You could strain your brain examining 7m artefacts, but you're probably on holiday, so why not gaze instead at Sir Robert Smirke's Greek Revival courtyard (1852), & Norman Foster's Great Court (2000) Read more.
Sir John Soane was a popular 19thC architect, not least for bequeathing his house as a museum to the nation when he died in 1837. Read more.
This glorious Victorian gothic castle, built of Portland stone in 1882, is also a publicly accessible court with 88 courtrooms, elaborately carved oak-panelled walls, marble galleries and bad wigs. Read more.
Sir Chirstopher Wren - as architect of 54 LDN churches, The Royal Observatory, all sorts at Oxford and Cambridge and Hampton Court and Kensington Palace- was one of Britains greatest architects.
Situated 183m up on the 42nd floor of London's 7th tallest building (& dropping fast), Vertigo 42 is Tower 42's champagne bar (née the Natwest Tower - shaped like the Natwest logo) Reservation only Read more.
While Lloyd's the insitution - an insurance and reinsurance market- has been around since 1688, the Richard Rogers-designed steel and glass building, built in 1986, has become a modern City icon Read more.
Technically, this is the Swiss Re building, but everyone calls it the Gherkin, for obvious reasons. Or a torpedo, or a cigar...Entry is by employment with Swiss Re, or a private table at 40/30 Read more.
Architects are a competitive bunch, with each opus's raison d'etre being to trump the others. Thus, on completion the 'Shard of Glass' will be Europe's tallest building. Read more.
And now for some iron & glass from a very different era. The Floral Hall once sold flowers aat the old Covent Garden Market. Read more.
