by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
The Gothic Revival tour visits several 19th century buildings encapsulating the style that embraced medieval craftsmanship, including the Houses of Parliament, All Saints Church, Margaret St, and the High Courts of Justice. We will also visit the V&A Museum to see...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Art & Design Tours Courses
Wren’s City of London churches, visiting several of his buildings that defined the English Baroque style of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, following the destruction of the city in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Of the original 52 churches built by Sir...
by walklondonadming | Aug 20, 2019 | Architectural Tours, Walking tours
Today, London is a strange mix of old and new buildings often juxtaposed on adjoining sites. This is the result of modernisation, and rebuilding after The Great Fire of London in 1666 and the bombing Blitz during the Second World. There are a number of personally...
by walklondonadming | Aug 21, 2019 | Architectural Tours
Following the Second World War, when much of London was destroyed by bombing, there were several schemes to rebuild the old City of London, which had suffered very badly in the Blitz. The 50s was the new age of modernism and many new prefabricated concrete monoliths...
