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George’s Diner, Docklands, London, 2025

A boarded-up, abandoned brick building with a large sign reading GEORGE'S DINER. The windows and doors are covered with timber, graffiti is visible on the walls, and overgrown weeds dominate the foreground. The sky is overcast.

The kind of photo-through-fence that makes my partner stand a few metres away looking disinterested, lest passersby think he’s involved.

Cundy Park Play Building, Docklands, London, 2025

A small, single-storey red brick building with a sloping roof sits behind a tall metal fence. There are two turquoise doors and signs on the front, with overcast skies and trees in the background. The building faces a quiet, empty road.

Breaking up the monotony of the first day back in the office with a shabby little municipal park building.

Flying Angel House, Docklands, London, 2025

A tall red brick building with numerous grid-like windows, white trim, and two projecting white balconies. The sky above is cloudy, and a black railing and small green bushes are visible at ground level in front.

Opened in 1936 as The Missions to Seamen Institute, replacing an older Victorian building on East India Dock Road, as part of an Anglican organisation supporting seafarers. This hostel provided 150 bedrooms and related amenities, now in mixed commercial and residential use. The flying angel motif above the main entrance is of particular interest.

Construction, Docklands, London, 2025

Close-up view of the exterior of a multi-storey concrete car park, showing rows of repetitive horizontal balconies with metal railings. The image is taken from a low angle, looking up, highlighting the structure’s geometric lines and weathered surfaces.

The Mint Building, City of London, 2025

A modern glass building façade with a grid of repeating rectangular windows, each framed by metal and covered with dark, louvred shutters. The reflections of the sky and nearby structures are visible in the glass panels.

Originally designed by Peter Foggo, constructed in 1997-99. Currently due to undergo refurbishment which will remove the brise soleil, which is part of the building’s striking look.

Baynard House, City of London, 2025

A building with 4 floors of continuous thin-framed aluminium windows, as well as vertical ribbed concrete between each floor. At the bottom, a series of metal horizontal vents and an entrance to an underground carpark.

The building was designed by William Holford incorporating a separation of pedestrians from streets, with a first-floor adjoining walkway along Queen Victoria Street that connects to Blackfriars station.
Baynard House, London – Wikipedia

Streets in the sky! Definitely one to go back to. It is, however, a nightmare to photograph, owing to the coach parking out front.

After a short period supporting the dramatic arts, the venue was reinvented as a kind of soft porn cinema, and began showing European arthouse movies with “a level of nudity that British and American cinema wasn’t ready for”.
Wikipedia

Not a straight-up soft porn cinema, god forbid, just a kind of one.

George’s Diner, Docklands, London, 2025

Cundy Park Play Building, Docklands, London, 2025

Flying Angel House, Docklands, London, 2025

Construction, Docklands, London, 2025

The Mint Building, City of London, 2025

Baynard House, City of London, 2025

External stairs & vent, National Theatre, London, 2025

Stairwell, National Theatre, London

Wayfinding signpost outside the National Theatre, 2025

Prince Charles Cinema, Westminster, London, 2025