House & Garden

House & Garden

Among the most notable British contributions to urban design, are the terraced house and the garden square. Once Inigo Jones and his patron the Earl of Bedford had set the precedent in London with Covent Garden piazza in the 17th century, the ideas born in Italy...
City Slicker

City Slicker

By my reckoning, London has 13 railway termini, surely many more than any other city. Many retain their Victorian character with soaring iron and glass vaulted train sheds, and several have  undergone major renewals in the last decade. St Pancras, for example has gone...