London
London
London's architecture spans nearly a thousand years in a single skyline, medieval and Georgian survivors sitting alongside Victorian civic buildings and a growing cluster of contemporary towers like the Shard and 22 Bishopsgate. Planning is shaped by strict height controls around protected sightlines to St Paul's, which has pushed much of the recent high-rise development into clusters like the City and Canary Wharf, while conservation areas keep large parts of the historic fabric intact.
Client
Uncommissioned
Location
London
Service
Photography
Birmingham's architecture reflects its industrial past and ongoing reinvention, Victorian factories and warehouses standing alongside brutalist infrastructure and a wave of recent redevelopment around New Street Station and the Library of Birmingham. The city has leaned into bold, sculptural civic buildings over the past two decades, part of a broader effort to reposition Birmingham as a design-forward alternative to London.
