Starting & finishing at the hotel we have 3 great cycle tours for you to choose from. Royal Tour / Design & Architecture / Fashion & Cake. Which one will you choose to taste the best of LDN's sites? En savoir plus .
You could strain your brain examining 7m artefacts, but you're probably on holiday, so why not gaze instead at Sir Robert Smirke's Greek Revival courtyard (1852), & Norman Foster's Great Court (2000) En savoir plus .
Sir John Soane was a popular 19thC architect, not least for bequeathing his house as a museum to the nation when he died in 1837. En savoir plus .
This glorious Victorian gothic castle, built of Portland stone in 1882, is also a publicly accessible court with 88 courtrooms, elaborately carved oak-panelled walls, marble galleries and bad wigs. En savoir plus .
Sir Chirstopher Wren - as architect of 54 LDN churches, The Royal Observatory, all sorts at Oxford and Cambridge and Hampton Court and Kensington Palace- was one of Britains greatest architects.
Situated 183m up on the 42nd floor of London's 7th tallest building (& dropping fast), Vertigo 42 is Tower 42's champagne bar (née the Natwest Tower - shaped like the Natwest logo) Reservation only En savoir plus .
While Lloyd's the insitution - an insurance and reinsurance market- has been around since 1688, the Richard Rogers-designed steel and glass building, built in 1986, has become a modern City icon En savoir plus .
Technically, this is the Swiss Re building, but everyone calls it the Gherkin, for obvious reasons. Or a torpedo, or a cigar...Entry is by employment with Swiss Re, or a private table at 40/30 En savoir plus .
Architects are a competitive bunch, with each opus's raison d'etre being to trump the others. Thus, on completion the 'Shard of Glass' will be Europe's tallest building. En savoir plus .
And now for some iron & glass from a very different era. The Floral Hall once sold flowers aat the old Covent Garden Market. En savoir plus .
