(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
According to recent research from thinktank New London Architecture, the Big Smoke could get as many as 600 new skyscrapers over the next decade. Eleven of these towers have already been confirmed to be built in the City of London by 2030, […]
Back in the day, Soho was the centre of London’s sex industry. But in 2025 the West End’s seedy history feels well in the past, with most of the area’s sex shops and clubs gone. Now residents fear that Soho will ‘return to […]
The Barbican is a bonafide London icon. So it’s good news that the 50-year-old brutalist behemoth’s Barbican Centre is getting a massive renovation, so it will be enjoyed for generations to come. More details of the £191 million restoration of […]
This year the Bridge Theatre is set to take us into two sets of magical woods: once for a revival for its legendary 2019 production of Shakespeare’s forest-set A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and again for the classic Sondheim musical Into the Woods. First […]
A third of the British Museum’s huge gallery space is set to be redeveloped by Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh. Her firm, Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture (LGA), beat 59 other contenders to win the exciting project, hailed by the museum as […]
Earlier this month Plates in Shoreditch became the first vegan restaurant in the UK to be awarded a Michelin star at the 2025 Michelin Guide ceremony. One of the few fine-dining vegan restaurants in London, since opening last summer Plates has […]
The ooky, spooky Tim Burton exhibition at The Design Museum has just been given a new lease of life after smashing all attendance records at Kensington exhibition space. The World of Tim Burton has welcomed 171,000 people through its doors […]