On the Soho site of the legendary Marquee Club, where artists including David Bowie and the Rolling Stones once performed, 100 Wardour Street operated as a restaurant, bar and live music venue at the heart of London's entertainment district. The address also previously housed Terence Conran's Mezzo and the Cuban venue Floridita, giving it a deep pedigree in Soho's nightlife and dining scene. The venue was arranged over two levels. A ground-floor bar and lounge centred on a striking feature bar .....

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.....

Abbey Road Studios, housed in a Georgian townhouse in the St John's Wood district of London, is among the most famous recording facilities in the world, its reputation forged by the extraordinary roster of musicians who have worked within its walls. Opened in 1931 by the Gramophone Company, the studios were originally a centre for classical recording, and the composer Edward Elgar conducted at the opening session. Their global fame, however, rests above all on their association with the Beatles.....

Completed only weeks after the death of Queen Victoria, the Apollo Theatre opened on 21 February 1901 as the first London playhouse of the Edwardian era. It was the fourth theatre to rise along Shaftesbury Avenue, the great thoroughfare of the West End, and remains the only fully realised theatre design by its architect, Lewin Sharp, who built it for the owner Henry Lowenfeld. Named after the Greek god associated with music and poetry, the Apollo was conceived specifically for musical entertain.....

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.....

Forever linked with the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Baker Street runs through the Marylebone district of central London. Arthur Conan Doyle gave Holmes the address of 221B Baker Street, a number that did not exist when the stories were written but has since become one of the most famous addresses in literature. The street was laid out in the 18th century and named after the builder William Baker. It developed as a smart residential address, and over time grew into a busy commercial str.....

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.....

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.....