What’s your London? The shiny glass towers of the modern city, or the crooked red-brick charm of its history?

by Substantial-Bat-4438

35 comments

  1. London is one of few cities that balances the modern and the old very well. Especially in the city of. That said if I had to chose one it would be old

  2. the red brick charm can still be build today and is much nicer imho

  12. Well, my aunt lived in Kensington gore, so I think I have to say there.

  14. Not just the red brick seen extensively in the middle of town but the yellow brick that survives more in the suburbs. The steel and glass for the show-off buildings in the City and Canary Wharf I can take, but lack soul.

    What kills me is the stuff like the explosion along the south bank of the river between Vauxhall and Battersea. Who does this benefit? The vast majority of Londoners will never be able to afford a home there. Non-dom residents sitting on a property investment

  16. Both but also the graffiti-covered streets with strange little shops, the Georgian garden squares, the brutalist ex-council flats, the cobbled mews, what a fucking city

  17. As everyone else says, both. I love the way you can be somewhere like St Dunstan in the East Church, basically a ruin which is beautiful, walk 20m up the road and you’re staring at a building called the bloody walkie talkie.

  19. The actually London dirty yellow bricks of our industrial heritage. The true colour of 10 downing street for instance is the same yellow as the South Londob viaducts (if you blast off all the grime)

  22. As a Yank, I truly admire the balance between the old and the new. Aside from the great people and culture, it’s what makes London, for me, the greatest city in the world.

  23. London doesn’t exist without both. One of the greatest mixes of architecture in the world.

  25. Crying at a kebab shop while the rain grazes my hair and falls into the Pita to make it softer and the red bricks give off that musty rain smell.

  26. Both and neither. Most Londoners live outside of central London and we have even more than just these two, we have lower rise buildings, and houses, and parks.

    The idea of it only being those 2 is just focused on certain areas of London that get the most visitors.

  30. The one I live in is industrial estate meets 50s council estate meets tesla driving shared ownerships.

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