NILTA Directors' Meeting, London

15 February 2007. I'm in London again for a Directors' Meeting of the National Information and Learning Technologies Association.

It's the Chinese New Year, so I go down to have a look around Chinatown behind Leicester Square.

The following morning and we are on the 15th floor of the International Press Centre on Shoe Lane. As with the more well known Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London started in 1666, Shoe Lane was so named because shoes were made there.

Not everyone was happy that the windows in this room stretched from floor to ceiling but the view was excellent. Looking towards the bottom left of the photograph, I love the way you can find the older gorgeous buildings dwarfed by the larger but far less impressive modern skyscrapers. Alas all the design seems to have gone from design these days.

The Old Bailey and the now-familiar shape of 30 St Mary Axe, known popularly as the Gherkin Building - a name the owners hate and discourage. Probably a non-starter of a hope.

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