Just off busy Oxford Street lie some very luxurious homes whose occupants can afford some good architecture.

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More photos in my Mayfair gallery :
http://www.globalphotos.org/london-mayfair.htm

I absolutely adore some of those buildings, especially the ones that are like, all white all over with really intricate and delicate architectural features. This beautiful building is my favourite.

http://www.globalphotos.org/london/20060505/IMG_1254.jpg

Wow, I wish they built stuff like this now .. ... the thing I love about this british style of architecture is that throughout the different styles the window panes are all split in exactly the same way! usually 3 panes high and two panes wide such attention to detail, its very beautiful.

awesome pictures. Immense wealth

love it mr. skyline

Beautiful pictures

what a marvellous place..

Beautiful..

its ok not like bel air

its ok not like bel air

Agreed. Blows Bel Air out of the water! :)

Agreed. Blows Bel Air out of the water! :)

Bel Air's good but doesn't have anything traditional about.This though is some of the finest old architecture.

Great pictures as usual.

Great pics :)

Great pictures as usual

Doesn't matter how many times I see these pics, I still love going through them again!

love the architecture but people share common walls, im thinking the walls are thick, for noise and so on.

love the architecture but people share common walls, im thinking the walls are thick, for noise and so on.

I would imagine that the walls are pretty thick, as is the case with most British buildings built pre-war.

I imagine that new-worlders like yourself find it very odd that such wealthy people are living in glorified row-houses(!), but in many of London's exclusive neighbourhoods, it's all about the location and if the property is particurly beautiful, like the places shown here, then that only hikes the price up further.

One thing I will say though, is that outside of our big cities, many of the middle classes do in fact live in big detached houses, not so different to those found down-under, like these ones here:


http://media.rightmove.co.uk/7k/6428/6428_1260501_IMG_00_0000.jpg


http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/DetachedHomeL_468x299.jpg


Most British people would much rather live in a big house in leafy suburbia than in central London, but despite these two properties being much larger, they are still worth a lot less than these properties in Mayfair.

Which would I choose?................I wouldn't mind having one of each!

Snowyboy of all the houses you could have shown you show an awful and rather small uninspired detached home like the one in your 2nd pic! Of all the great homes you could have posted!

And by the way many of those row houses may look small, but are often bloody huge! The ones not split up into smaller tenements can be huge! I know I've been in some.

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I'm looking for a flatshare at the moment and I would eat my trousers to live there.

Bel Air's good but doesn't have anything traditional about.This though is some of the finest old architecture.

It's nice architecture but I would not cal it old.

Wouldn't you now, lol. They aren't ancient no. I'd say 18th and 19th century townhouses could be classed as sufficiently old enough to lend them a lot of historical resonance wouldn't you?I'm not having a go, i'm just making a point.

So nice architecture, I like it a lot!

HKskyline please post more!

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www.globalphotos.org
http://www.globalphotos.org/london.htm :)

[QUOTE=Zenith;28140698]Snowyboy of all the houses you could have shown you show an awful and rather small uninspired detached home like the one in your 2nd pic! Of all the great homes you could have posted!QUOTE]

Ok, it does look a bit naff, but it was late and I wanted to go to bed and this was one of the first pics that I saw!

Also, I thought that the fact that it was a new-build may surprise some people, that us Brits don't all live in old Victorian housing.

This any better?!

http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/images/daleviewb&b.jpg

i prefer more English country houses

I drool everytime I see this streets and buildings in London.

Astonishing thread!:banana:

more plse

love those houses

Wouldn't you now, lol. They aren't ancient no. I'd say 18th and 19th century townhouses could be classed as sufficiently old enough to lend them a lot of historical resonance wouldn't you?I'm not having a go, i'm just making a point.

They're not very old. Most of the are Victorian structures from the late 1800s and some Georgian structures from the late 1700s. Buildings that age are everywhere in NY, Philly and Boston, and Europeans don't consider them old.

Nevertheless, this is one of the most beautiful urban areas in the world.

Though respond for this comment is too too late, it’ll be useful for some. Recently i’ve moved to london and spended lot of money for stay for first 2 month. Then through my friend i got a link for room share. you don’t believe, i spend one third of money for next three month from which i spend for first two month.

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