Tag: Chinese London

  • The Pagodas of London: A Tale of Two Towers

    The Pagodas of London: A Tale of Two Towers

    London, a city forever caught between history and reinvention, has many unlikely landmarks. Cheesegraters that scrape the sky. A gherkin with no pickling involved. And then—quietly, gracefully—pagodas. Not one, but two. Rising from very different soils, they are structures of rare symmetry and even rarer stillness. One is a Georgian fantasy, the other a Buddhist…