chipped plaster

I love the way London neighborhoods so often have these weird juxtapositions of nice buildings with deteriorating ones.

oyster card reader on construction site

A weird bit of art. This is a temporary wall hiding a construction site and the little circle on the outside has been turned into an Oyster card machine -- it's the little thing that we tap our travelcards to whenever we take the tube.

blue and green

I like a nice bright color for house facades.

stubby tree

I don't get why they do this to trees in Europe. Anyone know?

lovely flats

I'd love to live in a place like this in Primrose Hill.

bridge art

Public art on a bridge. That's my silhouette!

sunset on primrose

Enjoying the end of a sunny day on Primrose Hill.

cooper

Mini!

Bridge

The bridge over the train tracks in Primrose Hill, painted quite nicely.

Mock Tudor

Mock Tudor is a popular style of home architecture both here and abroad, but this version of the look, spotted in ritzy Primrose Hill, is a kind of Arts and Crafts re-conceptualization of the style. The black lines are barely trying to look like fifteenth-century supporting beams and are there purely for the aesthetic value. Kind of reminds me of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's work.

Banksy: the First!

I found my first Banksy! Or, at any rate, a very good Banksy lookalike.

Evening

Some nice sunset light on some nice pastel-colored houses at Primrose Hill.

Shard #2

An early January view from Primrose Hill. See the Shard again? Sticking up amid the much shorter buildings in the rightish part of the picture. That thing is seriously going to dominate the skyline come 2012. Maybe I'll try to document its rise over the next several months...