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2016-01-17 01:00 pm
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The Royal College of Physicians, and John Dee

I've discovered a fresh bit of amazing London architecture: the Royal College of Physicians building next to Regent's Park.

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I was there Friday afternoon and Saturday morning for a legal event (Chancery Bar Association winter conference) and was immediately impressed by the building. Its style seemed familiar and I wasn't at all surprised to find that it was by Denys Lasdun, architect of the Royal National Theatre and Keeling House (the latter being familiar to me via [livejournal.com profile] purplecthulhu).

Even more interestingly the RCP was about to open its exhibition on John Dee, so I was able to get a sneak peek.

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I'll definitely be going back soon, both to see the full Dee exhibition and to further admire Lasdun's architecture.
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2010-06-06 07:57 pm
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Çengelhan Rahmi M Koç Museum, Ankara

Work recently took me to Ankara, for a conference on Cloud computing organised by Microsoft Turkey. For the most part Ankara is a rather soulless expanse of office block, but in the historic centre there are a few attractions including the Çengelhan Rahmi M Koç Museum, a branch of the larger Koç Museum in Istanbul. We went there for lunch on the closing day of the conference and had a chance to look around.

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It terms of atmosphere it very much reminded me of the Wellcome Collection, albeit with a wider focus; there was the same sense of someone finally having the resources to indulge in rampant collectormania regarding his pet interests.

The full set is here, with captions.
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