Archway Architecture

Since my arrival to London I have noticed multiple archways in various shapes, styles and locations. My first day in this new city I was taken on a tour of the area surrounding our new home and found this beautiful "mews" which my RA Seb pointed out. These mews are typically small narrow streets usually with flats on both sides. This particular mews stood out to me because of the stone archway that leads into it. After being in London for a little over a week now I can confidently say I have fallen in love with all archways and the beauty that they protect.  Since seeing this beautiful view I have noticed that archways are a common choice of design. I have so far captured pictures (see below) of stone archways leading into quaint mews, archways covered by vines in Kensington  gardens and archways on my elegant pastry dish at The Orangery tea room. It is now safe to say that I will be continuing to keep my eyes open for all archways in my charming new city. 

The Orangery 

Kensington Gardens 

Mews

London Architecture

My second day in beautiful London I spent traveling via the tube to a quaint little town called Notting Hill. After being in a new city and conquering thanks to the help of my friends a new means of transportation we appeared above ground to this beautiful view. I then began to find the unfamiliarity of being in a new place to be intoxicating. The array of neapolitan colors and tall narrow buildings were a vast difference from my home in the country side. I immediately fell in love with the structure of each flat most of them being four floors high with a terrace on the second floor. These flats are on a small narrow road with a row of other flats just across the road.  

Notting Hill