Bromley is not the sort of place you expect to find God. Its focal point, The Glades, is a classically soulless Zone 5 shopping mall…

Fabrica X presents the science in a way that transforms a jaded Londoner into an eager child at a magic show…

Looking at a map of London, it may amaze you to see just how many green patches have mushroomed in this city...

An olfactory tour of the city can uncover unexpected dimensions to even its most well-travelled landmarks…

It’s easy to think of our neighbourhoods as ordinary, but seeing the familiar as though for the first time brings into focus the beauty of our surroundings...

If Dom’s traits were laid out like the recipes of his already-famous dishes, it would suddenly be clear how a narrow little space in one of London’s most prohibitively priced postcodes has become such a fast success…

A sea of sails made way for fleets of steel, the vessels bringing produce up the Thames grew increasingly swollen, laden with raw materials and a lot – a gruesome lot – of fish…

The inside of Sprigs looks like it could be a murder room, with its transparent plastic curtains and hose for the floor. Or a school science lab, with its LED lighted racks and chalk board. Or even a garden centre, with its stacks of fluffy green shoots. What it does not look like is the tractor-and-cow farm of our childhood cartoons…

Stained glass windows are your new reason to visit houses of prayer…

Slung over the shoulder, saddled to your side, swinging by your hip, no matter what form it comes in, everybody knows the bag is the ultimate accessory…

What do these mews represent? What other places echo in their mix of cobblestones, two-up-two-downs and eye-catching exteriors?

Approach Westfield Stratford City from London’s Olympic Park, and you’d be forgiven for feeling dizzy, practically vertiginous. It’s from this angle that the mall’s clash of forms and surfaces is at its most disturbing.

Despicable, deplorable, and downright delinquent…

These timeless figures exist only so long as people believe in them, and are now locked in a battle facing extinction, obscured by the attention-seeking new gods of media, drugs and celebrity.

Whether you moved in the arty and bohemian circles of Paris, London or New York, or lived in the White House, you wanted to be seen with an unconventional pet – the more exotic the better…

There are now only a handful of chained libraries left across Europe, a vanishing reminder that for most of human history the written word was expensive…