6K views · 617 reactions | From historic sights to contemporary architecture, there’s no shortage of iconic London landmarks! Which one will you be visiting first in 2024? ️ #LetsDoLondon #VisitLondon | Visit London | Facebook

In South London, not far from Borough Market, you can find ‘The Scoop’! At 50-52 Union Street is an office block development. Completed in 2024, it was started by Lipton Plant Architects and finished by Corstorphine and Wright. It has a specially designed cut-out from the building to highlight the rose window of the Victorian church behind. A traditional development would have completely blocked the view of the church from multiple angles, but this design was put in place with the aim to protect

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For a new report on how London can face its infrastructure challenges, New London Architecture invited SOM’s Adam Semel to discuss a transformative idea: turning tall buildings into batteries. In the story, Semel explains how Energy Vault’s gravity energy storage systems use surplus energy to lift heavy weights, which create potential energy that can later be converted into electricity when lowered. “We quickly came to understand the impact of this technology for energy security, but also we mar