Whistler’s paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...

A French astrophotographer has captured a stunning photo of Venus and the moon shining above the Eiffel Tower in Paris, ...

January 25 is Burns Night, the day night when you can don your tartan and drink all the whisky you like to celebrate the birthday of the poet Robert Burns. A Scottish icon, Burns – affectionately ...

Although its exterior might be grim and even unimpressive (especially when compared to stately Buckingham Palace), the Tower of London's interior is always bustling with activity. Despite its name ...

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Here, haggis will be served in tower form alongside neeps ... It’s the night the club has waited all year for. On 24 January the London Ceilidh Club celebrates Scotland’s most famous poet ...

Richard Seifert & Partners has been prolific in 20th-century London, and is behind well-known designs such as Centre Point, Tower 42, and the South Bank ... is the Architecture & Environment Director ...

Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the ...

The thing about the London Bills Backers is that they can offer that as, come Sunday night at 11.30pm, there will be more than 100 fans packed into the Fitzrovia Belle ready to say, “Go Bills”.

LONDON was nearly home to a central airport ... The plans showed the entire structure spanning the river between Westminster Bridge to Lambeth Bridge, which had just opened at the time.

London has loads of fabulous bridges: from the camp, pale pink Albert bridge to the infamously once wobbly Millennium bridge, and of course icons like Tower Bridge, every Londoner has their favourite.

Vulnerable to collapse' The decision to ask residents to leave these two tower blocks comes after Ronan Point in Newham, east London, partially collapsed after a gas explosion in 1968, in which ...