Marble arch

Marble Arch is a White Carrara-marble monument at the junction of oxford street, park lane, and Edgware road, in London, England. The arch ir on a large traffic island, which also includes a very small park. The traffic island is directly across from the Marble Arch tube station.

There are three small rooms inside the arch that were used as a police station until 1950, first for the royal constables of the park and later the Metropolitan Police.

The nearest London underground station is Marble Arch on the Central Line.

Speaker’s Corner

A speakers corner is an area where open air public speaking, debate and discussion are allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers there may speak on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful, although this right is not restricted to speakers corner only-the same right to free speech applies everywhere else in the UK. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed, but in practice the police tend to be tolerant and therefore only intervene when they receive a complaint or if they hear profanity.

The Victoria and Albert Museum


set in the South Kensington district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects.

The museum possesses the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture, the holdings of Italian Renaissance items are the largest outside Italy. The departments of Asia include art from South Asia, China, Japan, Korea and the Islamic world.

The Natural History Museum
 is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments. Access to the library is by appointment only.

Originating from collections within the British Museum, the landmark Alfred Waterhouse building was built and opened by 1881, and later incorporated the Geological Museum.

Miquel Salvó

Belgravia. Chelsea. South kensington


HARRODS


Harrods is a high-end department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London..
Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1.5 billion.
The store's 330 departments offer a wide range of products and services. Products on offer include clothing for every sort of customer (women, men, children, and infants), electronics, jewellery, , toys, food and drink, , packaged gifts, stationery, housewares, home appliances, furniture, and  much  more.
A representative sample of store services includes 32 restaurants, serving everything from high tea to tapas to pub food to haute cuisine;a watch repair service; a tailor; a dispensing pharmacy; a beauty spa and salon; a barbers shop; Harrods Financial Services; Harrods Bank…
Up to 300,000 customers visit the store on peak days, comprising the highest proportion of customers from non-English speaking countries of any department store in London. More than five thousand staff from over fifty different countries work at Harrods.


 ALBERT MEMORIAL

The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens, London, England, directly to the north of the Royal Albert Hall. It was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband, Prince Albert.

The memorial was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic Revival style..

The central statue of Albert, by John Henry Foley, was ceremonially "seated" in 1875, three years after the memorial opened. The statue faces to the south, towards the Royal Albert Hall. Albert is holding a catalogue of The Great Exhibition, and is robbed as a Knight of the Garter.
The central part of the memorial is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus which depicts 169 individual composers, architects, poets, painters, and sculptors.
At the corners of the central area, and at the corners of the outer area, there are two allegorical sculpture programs: four groups depicting Victorian industrial arts and sciences (agriculture, commerce, engineering and manufacturing), and four more groups representing Europe, Asia, Africa and The Americas at the four corners, each continent-group including several ethnographic figures and a large animal. (A camel for Africa, a buffalo for the Americas, an elephant for Asia and a bull for Europe.)






 THE ROYAL CALLEGE OF ART


The Royal College of Art (RCA) is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). The University is located in South Kensington and Battersea in London, United Kingdom.

The College has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of architecture, automotive design, photography, industrial design, communication design, interaction design, fashion, ceramics and silversmithing.

According to the latest statistics on all graduate destinations from the RCA, an average of 93% gained work in directly related employment and at the right level. The current enrollment tally measures roughly 900 students, all taking fine art, applied art, design, communication design and humanities courses.

The most recent Research Assessment Exercise (December 2008) confirmed the Royal College of Art as a leading specialist art and design institution in the United Kingdom, with 40% of its research output judged to be of quality that is World-Leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigor. A further 25% was considered Internationally Excellent.

Anabel Ramos

St James / Mayfair

Buckingham palace

Buckingham palace is the official residence of the British monarch in London. The palace is used for ceremonies and state visits, sightseeing, as a residence by Queen Elizabeth II, and is also the headquarters of the royal collection of art (Royal Collection), whose main jewels exhibited.The palace gardens are the largest private gardens in London. Were originally created by Capability Brown, but redesigned by William Townsend Aiton and John Nash.

Pall Mall

Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, located in the Southwest and Battersea ZIP (SW1, for its acronym in English) and parallel to the street, The Mall, starting from the path of St. James and crossing over Waterloo Place towards Haymarket. Pall Mall East (In English, Pall Mall East) continues in the direction of Trafalgar Square. The street becomes a street in St. James's area, and in the regional section of the highway . Pall Mall is best known for hosting several gentlemen's clubs built in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
It was also the artistic center of London, because in 1814 the Royal Academy, the National Gallery and Christie's auction house were at this location, but none remained for a long time.

Laura Stuyck