I love the views from London rooftops. So, it was a particular pleasure to get out on the 9th floor of The Ned, a new hotel conveniently close to Bank underground station, and find a view of all of central London’s major rooftops, including, in the foreground, Jim Stirling’s No. 1, Poultry, with its polychromatic stonework:-
The dome of St. Paul’s, grandly numinous against the evening sun:-
And the box on the top of Rem Koolhaas’s slickly, smartly corporate headquarters for the Rothschild bank:-



Sad that these magisterial views come too late for The Book! But good for the next edition/volume?
Yes, am keen to do Central London if I can, so storing up posts for that. Charles