Built in 1901 as a schoolmaster's residence beside a former Victorian school, the 1901 Arts Club is an intimate salon-style recital venue on Exton Street in Waterloo, a short walk from the station and the South Bank. The restored period house has been turned into a candle-lit chamber music room that seats only a few dozen guests, offering a deliberately small and personal alternative to London's larger concert halls. The performance space is built around its acoustics and atmosphere. A Steinway.....

Occupying lower floors of the building that houses the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Piccadilly, 194 Piccadilly is a multi-purpose events and entertainment space in the West End of London. Operating in part under the name Neon 194, it runs as a bar and cafe by day and a ballroom and club space by night, with a capacity in the region of 400 across its main room. The address shares its home with BAFTA's headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, a building that has hosted screenings and cer.....

Occupying the former home of the long-running Club 414 at 414-416 Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, south London, the venue that launched as The Ton of Brix in December 2022 brought a new club operation to a site steeped in the area's underground dance history. A collaboration linked to the promoters behind Brixton Jamm, it took over a two-floor building only a few steps from Brixton station and held an unusual 24-hour drinking licence. The basement and ground floor were fitted with a Funktion-One s.....

A music bar and events space a few steps from Waterloo station, Alaska Waterloo occupies a unit on Alaska Street in the railway-arch district behind the South Bank. The room is built for hire and performance, with a compact stage, professional sound system, projector and colour-changing LED lighting, plus a fully stocked bar. The venue holds up to around 150 people standing, 90 seated theatre-style or 50 in a cabaret layout, making it suited to small and mid-sized events. It is used for parties.....

Opened on 15 October 1930 as the New Victoria, this West End theatre on Wilton Road began life as a lavish super cinema during the great age of the picture palace. It was designed by Ernest Wamsley Lewis and W. E. Trent for Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, with an Art Deco interior themed around an undersea world of shell-shaped lights and wave-like plasterwork. The building occupies an awkward triangular site between Wilton Road and Vauxhall Bridge Road, which gave it two almost identical fr.....

Standing in isolated grandeur at Hyde Park Corner, Apsley House was once so prominently the first building travellers reached on entering London from the west that it earned the simple address Number One London. Built in the 1770s to designs by Robert Adam and later remodelled and faced in Bath stone, the mansion is famous as the London home of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, the soldier and statesman who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and twice served as prime minister. The hous.....

Dedicated to the work of the anonymous street artist who has become one of the most talked-about figures in contemporary art, this immersive exhibition gathers reproductions, prints, installations and audiovisual displays to trace the career and themes of Banksy. The mysterious artist, whose true identity remains a closely guarded secret, rose from the graffiti scene to international fame through stencilled images that combine sharp wit with biting commentary on war, consumerism, surveillance an.....

The only major surviving part of the old Palace of Whitehall, the Banqueting House stands on Whitehall in central London, a refined classical building among the government offices of the surrounding street. It was the grandest room of what was once the largest palace in Europe. It was designed by the architect Inigo Jones and completed in 1622 for King James I. Jones had studied in Italy, and the building introduced the disciplined Palladian classicism of the Renaissance to England, in marked c.....

Two hundred acres of riverside green space reclaimed from marshland on the south bank of the Thames, this Victorian park opened to the public in 1858 after a decade of earth-moving and planting directed by designer James Pennethorne. The site had previously been the Battersea Fields, a swampy common associated with duelling, market gardening, and the Red House tavern, whose rowdy reputation eventually prompted Parliament to authorise its transformation into a public park. A boating lake, subtro.....

A Grade II-listed former coal-fired power station on the south bank of the Thames, Battersea Power Station reopened in 2022 as a shopping, dining and leisure destination in the Nine Elms district of London. The brick building was raised in two phases from the 1930s, its four white chimneys becoming one of the most recognisable shapes on the city's skyline before the plant was decommissioned in 1983. It stood derelict for decades, familiar from film and album artwork, until a major regeneration.....