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Originally Posted by nito
Not sure where you’d start in London with its plethora of castles, palaces, stations, stately homes, livery halls, museums, market halls, libraries, cathedrals, etc…
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Not to mention pubs (and clubs)! Neither is particularly my thing, but there are plenty of nice ones. This bar sits in what used to be a church, but Jesus said man cannot live by bread alone, so they turned it into a foodie market:
Here are a few of my other favorites.
Leighton House in Holland Park, designed by the eccentric lord and Pre-Raphaelite painter. Now a museum:
Maughan Library (formerly the Public Record Office), where I've unfortunately spent far too much time:
London Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha. Anybody can swim here for a fiver:
The Conservatory at the Barbican. It's built around the tower that houses stage machinery for the National Shakespeare Theatre which sits beneath it -- the architects roofed the whole area in glass and made it one of London's nicest parks.
And one place I'd really like to go inside:
