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...settling on the former Commonwealth Institute pavilion on Kensington High Street in west London in 2008, trustees toyed with a number of options, including buying the site behind the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall...
...The National Theatre itself and the Royal Festival Hall are nearby in Waterloo....
...No architect, they asserted, could have justified a space with the scale of the Turbine Hall for a modern museum. Yet that space has become London’s greatest new public plaza....
...What: A seven-bedroom, Grade II-listed, Georgian property, with a large reception hall, drawing room, dining room and conservatory on the ground floor....
...From the South Bank, I’d then follow the river east towards the Design Museum at Shad Thames....
...Pull up outside a 1920s Spanish-style mansion in what was once Shanghai’s International Settlement, and you’ll be led through wood-panelled halls with tile-patterned floors to a private room decked out in...
...Here Bihzad illuminated his miniatures; Babur wrote some of the most telling passages in his memoirs; and the Timurid princess Gohar Shad built one of the great colleges of the world....
...While much of the Thames’s southern bank swarms on weekends with non-locals visiting the London Eye and Royal Festival Hall, shopping for food at Borough Market and dining at the restaurants that sit in...
...Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1, tel 870 909 9009...
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