PETER JONES DEPARTMENT STORE, SLOANE SQUARE, SW1W

Peter Jones department store, which occupies an entire island site on the west side of Sloane Square.

It was built between 1932 and 1936 to designs by William Crabtree of the architectural firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly. The building is the first modern-movement use of the glass curtain wall in Britain and is now a Grade II* listed building.

CADOGAN HALL, BELGRAVIA SW1X

Cadogan Hall was a former church, completed in 1907 to designs in the Byzantine Revival style by architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm.

The building fell into disuse and Cadogan Estates purchased the building in 2000 and offered the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra the use of the hall as its principal venue in late 2001. The hall was refurbished in 2004 as a 953 seat capacity concert hall and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gave its first concert as the resident ensemble of Cadogan Hall in November 2004.

CADOGAN SQUARE, CHELSEA SW1X

Cadogan Square is an example of Queen Anne revival architecture of the 1870s and 1880s favouring red brick rather than stucco (found elsewhere in the neighbour), which was carried out by the Cadogan Estate and Hans Place Estate.

Seen here is No. 72 (left) by architect: R Norman Shawn and built in 1878. On the right is no. 70 by architect: A J Adams and built two years after.

ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA, SW3

The Royal Hospital Chelsea was established over 300 years ago, during the reign of King Charles II, to provide a home for soldiers "broken by age and war."

In 1682 the King commissioned Sir Christopher Wren, one of Britain’s most celebrated architects, to design this sanctuary for veteran soldiers. Inspired by the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, the Figure Court (illustrated here) is the oldest part of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The colonnade is all Wren's original work, with the panelling dating back to 1688 and the Latin inscription is said to have been composed by Wren himself. The Doric columns of the main portico, 32 feet high, support the Royal Hospital's water cistern which was originally filled from the River Thames.

KENSINGTON & CHELSEA REGISTRY OFFICE, SW3

The pedimented entrance to the Chelsea Registry Office, which forms part of a grand municipal building called Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road . It is also the home of the Sports Centre  and Chelsea Library.

Built between 1906-18 to the designs of Leonard Stokes in the neoclassical style, in red brick and stone with a granite plinth.

MICHELIN HOUSE, CHELSEA SW3

Michelin House was constructed as the first permanent UK headquarters and tyre depot for the Michelin Tyre Company Limited.

The building opened for business on 20 January 1911 and is a unique example of late British Art Nouveau Style and early Art Deco. The architect was François Espinasse, an engineer in the construction department at Michelin's headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand.

The Art Nouveau style can be seen in the decorative metal work at the front with the tangling plants round the tyre motifs. Its prominent roadside position and its strong advertising images and symmetry demonstrate the popular Art Deco style of the 1930’s. In this respect, Michelin House is a building twenty years before its time.

Michelin House has been listed Grade II since April 1969.

10 PALACE GATE, SOUTH KENSINGTON, W8

A block of flats designed in 1937 by Wells Coates (see also his earlier design for Embassy Court in Brighton) - one of the most innovative blocks of flats built in Britain in the 1930s, by one of the leading modern architects of the time.

It marks the culmination of Wells Coates' ideas on the planning of flats, arranged on a remarkable 3-2 plan (or 'scissor' plan) with three bedrooms equalling the height of two living rooms, accessed by a corridor and hallway on the second and fifth floors.

The Palace Gate site was not in fact ideally adapted to 'three-two', which requires length rather than depth, and to make full use of the land and provide a symmetrical composition, a projecting, slightly concave entrance block of seven storeys was built on the west side, planned on conventional lines, and joined to the main block by a glazed staircase and lift shaft. The concave front and its relation to the main block strengthen the recollection, on this side, of Corbusier's Pavillion Suisse.

Built in reinforced concrete with a novel artificial stone cladding they were completed and first occupied in 1939. Intending residents had a wide choice, and rents ranged from £175 to £425 for the flats and £700 for a penthouse.

Its was Grade II* Listed in 1982.

TRELLICK TOWER BLOCK B, NORTH KENSINGTON W10

The adjoining perpendicular seven-story block to the iconic 31 storey tower, with the same brutal concrete characteristics.

Ernö Goldfinger’s concrete masterpiece was completed in 1972 and was granted Grade II* listing in 1998.