Tag: cityscape

Crossing the River

We walked down Lower Marsh, across Waterloo Bridge, past Somerset House (we’d been hoping to visit Photo London and in to the Strand at Aldwych. Click any image to see them all enlarged (in your browser).

Skyline

Central Park, New York

Excuse the obscenity, but it’s hard to think of these obscene new erections as anything but pencil-dick buildings, leveraging hideous loopholes in NY real estate law to enrich developers and allow Russian and other kleptocratic regimes’ oligarchs to hide and protect their ill-gotten wealth in empty pieds à terre, through layers of shell corporations, whilst blighting Central Park’s skyline.