In the words of the great architect Sir Christopher Wren, "architecture aims at eternity".
Portland stone, mined in the south western county of Dorset, was used by Sir Christopher Wren to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral between 1675 and 1710.
Opponents of modern architecture may scoff that Sir Christopher Wren and Filippo Brunelleschi tended to make buildings that lasted a little longer than 60 years.
The Queen's House (by Inigo Jones) was the first Palladian building in England and the park contains the Old Royal Observatory, the work of Christopher Wren and the scientist Robert Hooke.
Christopher Wren's plans completely to remodel the city after the Great Fire were frustrated by the desire of merchants and traders to get back to business as soon as possible.
The same could have been said, though, about Sir Christopher Wren, whose 51 churches, and landmarks like Kensington Palace and Greenwich Naval Hospital, dominated the city after the Great Fire of London.
Also, over strong London coffees, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren and philosopher Robert Hooke met to discuss the movement of Earth and Dr John Wilkins mooted, for the first time ever, the idea of flying to the moon.
From the deck, tick off architectural and historical glories as you sweep past: to your right, the Monument - Sir Christopher Wren's memorial to the Great Fire of 1666 - then Wren's towering achievement, dome-hatted St Paul's Cathedral.
In fact, Max -- who spends only part of the year at Easton Neston -- has become so enamored with "all things English" that he's relocated part of his design studio to a former real tennis court in a wing designed by Sir Christopher Wren, famous for the construction of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.
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