London’s BT tower turns hotel British architect Thomas Heatherwick is working on creating a luxury hotel for US-based MCR in the once vital 177-metre pointy structure originally known as the BT Post Office Tower. Full of microwave aerials, telecommunications equipment, the now obsolete tower once…

Swan Upping on the Thames A quirky leftover from medieval times, the five-day Royal Census of the swans still happens each year on a special part of the Thames River. Each July, a handsome flotilla of Thames rowing skiffs, carrying a number of colourfully dressed…