London City - The Square Mile Starting at St. Paul´s Cathedral, this tour leads through the heart of London, highlighting important examples of the City´s urban history and its contemporary buildings. The contrast and the interaction between historic buildings and new architecture are the most important aspects characterising the City of London. Architects react with different strategies to the City’s complex urban context: the High-Tech-Architecture of Nicolas Grimshaw and Norman Foster that incorporates the remains of the Roman London Wall; the Corbusian urban planning ideas manifested in the Barbican Centre in an impressive way; Richard Rogers’ design for Lloyds, with its subtle, multi-layered composition that adds a contemporary and “technical” ornament to the City; and, in complete contrast, the neo-historical design of Paternoster Square which tries to re-create an appropriate setting for the adjacent and highly sensitive St. Paul´s Cathedral.

We organise architecture guided tours in London, up to custom made architecture programs for several days. Please contact us for more detailed information.

Architecture designed by Allies & Morrison, Arup, Chamberlin Powell & Bon, Norman Foster, Nicolas Grimshaw, Rolfe Judd, McMorrin Bird, Eric Parry, Richard Rogers, Stirling Wilford, William Whitfield a.o.