Tagged With "The Shard"

VisitBritian announced the winners in their 'Great names for Great  Britain ' campaign The campaign used the existing trend of the Chinese to give literal names to favorite celebrities, places and foods. Over 2 million Chinese visited the...

The next leg of my trip was the shortest distance I had to drive, but it took the longest time. There was a lot to see along the way.   Flagstaff AZ I was last in Flagstaff 20 years ago. It was a dismal depressed town in which nothing was...

A planned observation tower designed by a leading architect is facing controversy even though construction has been approved.

A new bridge, designed by 'starchitect' Renzo Piano, is going up to replace the bridge that tragically collapsed just over a year ago.

It's not just the Middle Eastern oil lands that like to brag about tall new skyscrapers; now Spain and Britain are in a competition for Europe's tallest.

London's Southwark Cathedral has a long and colorful history as a church, but only a century or so as a cathedral.

This taste of France is only a couple of hours away from Barry Barford's Australian home.

Barry Barford revisits his old home in England's capital.

A reminder from Paul Heymont that the famous and infamous Tower of London is far from the only tower of London!

I've lived in London for the past 5 years and watched, with great anticipation, the Shard being built from its foundations to one of the tallest buildings in Europe.

Paul Heymont shares another sample of random observations made while wandering in London