We Made That – The Open Office (via We Made That – The Open Office)

Living in a box Innovation: Shipping containers have been used as homes in the UK before such as this Container City in London (via Living in a box)

Situated in the heart of the City, this boutique scheme is the third hotel completed by Allies and Morrison. (via The completion of the South Place Hotel, City of London)

This period of Olympics will be held in the city of London who intends to expose its beauty, dynamic and diversity to everyone. Dynamic and union elements can be found within the chain reactions in the domino games where the elements move forward by sliding over each other’s arm. (via Informative Dominoes For London 2012 Olympics Games)

A theatre, a laboratory, a bank tower, an art gallery, a cancer centre and the Olympic Stadium are in the running for Britain’s foremost architectural award (via Stirling prize shortlist revealed)

Since the inception of the modern Olympics in 1896, host governments have used the games to make a statement about their cities’ place in the world. (via Olympic Urbanism: The Athletes’ Village)

The tower, designed by Renzo Piano, will contain offices, exclusive residences, a hotel, restaurants and a viewing gallery (via The Shard, Europe’s tallest building, unveiled in London)

(via Anish Kapoor’s Orbit tower: the mother of all helter-skelters)

Steve Rose writes about a trio of museums celebrating Britain’s nautical history; The Cutty Sark conservation project, the Mary Rose Museum and Southampton’s SeaCity. The first, a newly restored Cutty Sark can be found at its new home in Greenwich, designed by Grimshaw Architects. (via The Cutty Sark: hoist the main sail!)

King’s Cross’s new roof is magnificent. It’s just a shame it sits so uncomfortably with its neighbouring buildings (via Review / London King’s Cross concourse)