Nelson's Ship in a Bottle has been unveiled as the new occupant of the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. 
Hyde Park
A Paul Smith inspired sculpture at Hyde Park
Leicester Square
Life-size models painted by artists and designers are dotted all round the U.K. capital's streets, from landmarks such as Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square and even to Buckingham Palace.
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Yesterday spoke about my trip to Covent Garden and the variety of street performers that are there. Although Covent Garden has a number of high end fashion shops it's the street performers that give the area the edge over Oxford or Regents Street.
The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron and contractors Carillion, after which it stood at 99m tall. The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern. The southern third of the building was retained by the French power company EDF Energy as anelectrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding).
The Galleries
A gallery at Tate Modern. The collections in Tate Modern consist of works of international modern and contemporary art dating from 1900 onwards. The Tate Collection is on display on levels three and five of the building, while level four houses large temporary exhibitions and a small exhibition space on level two houses work by contemporary artists.
