Okay, I am not a Londoner - or a Brit - so I feel no embarrassment about starting this one. In some ways its an antidote - but not attack, on Potto's 'The Ugly Truth About London.'

Accepting that the city never had the grand makeover that Paris had, let's see some of the lovelist public buildings and places that have come down throught the ages. I'll avoid the obvious, Sir Charles Barry's Houses of Parliament (I think they're superb), and nominate this one.

For me, even the bricks and windows of Sir Francis Fowke/Alfred Waterhouse's Natural History Museum have a warm and inviting feeling.

I think my wife feels the same about the second nomination (pictures 3&4):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/naturalhistorymusem.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/nathis.jpg


Mrs Mukherjee chooses:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/harrods.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/harrods2.jpg

A bit off the cliched tourist trail but 'so London' it should be on every visitors itiniery. Indeed when i want to escape the throngs of West End visitors it is here i pop into to get a dose of British eccentricity :D.

Sir John Soane's Museum

http://www.travellondon.com/templates/museums/picts/SLN.jpg

http://www.britcastles.com/curio/soane1.jpg

My top 30 London buildings:

01) Big Ben/Parliament
02) St Paul's Cathedral
03) St Pancras Station
04) Tower Bridge
05) London Eye
06) Millennium Dome
07) Natural History Museum
08) Palm House at Kew Gardens
09) Royal Courts of Justice
10) Harrods

11) Westminster Abbey
12) Westminster Cathedral
13) British Museum
14) Greenwich Naval College
15) Swiss Re
16) Canary Wharf Tube
17) HSBC skyscraper
18) 1 Canada Square
19) Royal Albert Hall
20) Tate Modern

21) Lloyds of London
22) Middle Temple Hall
23) Tower of London
24) Former Express Building (Fleet St)
25) Regent's Park Crescent
26) Carlton House Terrace (The Mall)
27) London Business School
28) Hampton Court Palace
29) The Treasury
30) Sri Swaminarayan Mandir


Favourite UC:
- Heathrow Terminal 5
- Wembley Stadium
- Arsenal Stadium
- Battersea Power Station

I really would like to see some londoner public spaces. Squares, streets, walking side with trees and urban furniture. Somebody here with those kind of pics?

I took some of Berkely Square and Golden Square. I'll get them up soonish.

http://www.atma83.dsl.pipex.com/Pictures/4thOct/cimg2362copy.jpg

http://www.atma83.dsl.pipex.com/Pictures/4thOct/cimg2361copy.jpg

http://www.atma83.dsl.pipex.com/Pictures/4thOct/cimg2350copy.jpg

http://www.atma83.dsl.pipex.com/Pictures/4thOct/cimg2378copy.jpg

http://www.atma83.dsl.pipex.com/Pictures/4thOct/cimg2377copy.jpg

:cheers:

theres so much more though. London has wildlife reserves, and extremely well kept parks.

I love the Natural History Museum. I love the Grand Hall of British Museum as well. Parts of Hyde Park are great.

well you might aswell call the Natural History Museum, the 'Darwin Museum'.

Darwin Burgers, Dawin Coke, Dawin Kids trail etc etc.

It's still beautiful, what's Darwinism got to do with it?

well go INSIDE and you'll realise ;)

I'm not doubting its beauty, its stunning.

My top 30 London buildings:

01) Big Ben/Parliament
02) St Paul's Cathedral
03) St Pancras Station
04) Tower Bridge
05) London Eye
06) Millennium Dome
07) Natural History Museum
08) Palm House at Kew Gardens
09) Royal Courts of Justice
10) Harrods

11) Westminster Abbey
12) Westminster Cathedral
13) British Museum
14) Greenwich Naval College
15) Swiss Re
16) Canary Wharf Tube
17) HSBC skyscraper
18) 1 Canada Square
19) Royal Albert Hall
20) Tate Modern

21) Lloyds of London
22) Middle Temple Hall
23) Tower of London
24) Former Express Building (Fleet St)
25) Regent's Park Crescent
26) Carlton House Terrace (The Mall)
27) London Business School
28) Hampton Court Palace
29) The Treasury
30) Sri Swaminarayan Mandir


no somerset house? it has a stunning courtyard (especially in winter) and houses two art galleries.