This is 10 Trinity Square and it used to be the HQ of the Port of London Authority.
This is 10 Trinity Square and it used to be the HQ of the Port of London Authority.
There's a little lane just off
Doesn't look like much and there are far grander streets in the square mile, but St Swithins is special. The building on the left, currently under construction will total 140,000 sq ft net office space and it'll have a sky garden on the roof which is nice but not that unusual. What makes
Here's a novel use for abandoned flats. Make the building watertight... then pour 80,000 litres of copper sulphate solution down the chimney and leave for a couple of weeks. Why? Because it's art, that's why.

This is "Seizure" by Roger Hiorns. It's free, open to the public until November 2009 (extended by popular demand), you'll find it just off the
Yesterday at the proposed site of Kew HQ and the
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This is the site of the Bell Green Gasworks in Sydenham.
It's a big site (hence the multi-shot-wide-angle thing) but has lain unused since gas production stopped way back in 1969. Circle
Hot on the heels of Picture Quiz 1 (October 2007) - This is Picture Quiz 2. Where are they and what are their names?
The property industry related prize awaits...

Barratt hedges its bets at the Horseferry Road Magistrate's Court development with both modern and classical designs. Has this got anything to do with the Chelsea Barracks debacle, I wonder?
Building Design has the full story.
This is a wide angle (sort of) shot of Circle Anglia's proposed development in
The curious thing about this one is that the entire site was to be developed in two phases by St James Homes. The first phase, named Q Waterside was completed over a year ago, and as far as I could make out yesterday, all 98 units are now occupied. There were to be a further 225 private units on the site, but earlier this year this final element was sold to Circle Anglia who intends to build them for social housing. So what started off as a predominantly private development looks as though it'll end up being mostly social. I suspect we'll be seeing quite a lot of this kind of tenure swap in the future.
Every 4 months we at London Residential Research visit and photograph every residential site in
...each one involved someone getting on a train, going on the underground...
...driving a car, riding a bike...
...or just plain walking to visit it.
On page 9 of this week's Estates Gazette there's an advert by the London Borough of Havering who is seeking a development partner for its Harold Hill Ambitions project.
My first thought was that this had something to do with the Countryside Properties scheme down the road at Harold Wood hospital. It doesn't.
Harold Hill Ambitions is a 20 year plan to spruce up the area, which includes building new housing stock, 240 units to be precise, on Gooshays Road, which, from the air, looks like this at the moment:
Well over half way and so high it's almost impossible to count the floors.
Last June I blogged about this site in Brentford:
This is St George's proposed Kew HQ development site, just by
This is Brookfield Multiplex's Strata development down the Elephant & Castle a few days ago. It's topped out and currently looks like this:
But give it a few more months and its unique features, three wind turbines on the roof (already taking shape) will become more apparent and will finally look like this:

This is The Oasis Tower One condominium in southwest

The family from
This would have been pure demolition genius if it was on purpose...trouble is it wasn't, the BBC has the story.
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