Architecture

Too diverse too be heralded under a specific architectural type, the whole of London offers the tourist an enchanting variety of architectural masterpieces from different eras of history. Even the numerous london vacation rentals offer the tourist an architectural variety in their design and construction, so that just living in London is an experience in itself. Exposed to a variety of architectural styles through the annals of its glorious past, London boasts of fortresses and palaces, villas and wharfs, all designed with the same aesthetic sense of optimum utilization of space. The most popular construction material is the yellow London stock brick, which has as its variant bricks in the warm orange-red variety as well.

Carvings and moldings of white plaster are often used to lend the buildings a decorative appeal. Public buildings can be seen to have in their framework Portland stone, another popular variety of construction material that British architects have favored. White stucco houses popularized by novels are another of the city’s visual treats. The vast variety of imposing buildings like the Tower of London and the Buckingham Palace sport balustrades and obelisks, arcs and cathedrals that have fascinated the viewers for many centuries. This diversity of architecture is soon deemed to support an assortment of sky scrapers as well, which have been sanctioned to dot London’s impressive sky line.