The Royal Horseguards hotel at 2 Whitehall Court, Whitehall, SW1A 2EJ, is to have its 280 bedrooms refurbished by next year as part of a £16.3m facelift.

The listed building was built in 1884 and used by the secret service and was also partly occupied by government departments during World War I.

This bunker was one of the four London group controls (regional war rooms). It covered the North Group (Barnet, Camden, City of London, Enfield, Haringey, Islington, Westminster).

The Empress State Building is a skyscraper in Hammersmith and Fulham, London. It was built in 1961 and was 100 metres tall with 28 floors. It was renovated in 2003 by Wilkinson Eyre Architects which added 3 floors and 17.3 metres to its height. 'Orbit' is the name given to the private revolving bar on the top floor which offers panoramic views of London.

The Corporation of Trinity House is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British territorial waters (with the exception of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland).

Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The central block of the Neoclassical building, the outstanding project of the architect Sir William Chambers, dates from 1776–96. It was extended by classical Victorian wings to north and south. A building of the same name was first built on the site more than two centuries earlier.

The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, England is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business.

The Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the London borough of the City of Westminster, close by other government buildings in Whitehall.

Parliament Square is a square outside the North-Western end of the Palace of Westminster in London. It features a large open green area in the middle, with a group of trees to its West.

Other buildings looking upon the Square include Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's, Westminster, the Middlesex Guildhall (to become the seat of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), HM Treasury, and Portcullis House, (and so Westminster tube station).

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Thames House is an office development in Millbank, London on the bank of the River Thames adjacent to Lambeth Bridge. It has served as the headquarters of the British Security Service , commonly known as MI5, since December 1994.

The building was constructed in 1929-30 on riverside land cleared after the disastrous 1928 Thames flood severely damaged run-down residential properties.

Downing Street is the street in Westminster, London, which has been the official residence for 200 years of two of the most senior British Cabinet Ministers, the First Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Prime Minister, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Downing Street is located in Whitehall in central London, a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament and on the edge of Horse Guards Parade and St. James's Park.

The SIS Building, also commonly known as the MI6 Building, is the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as "MI6".

It is known locally as Legoland and also as Babylon-on-Thames due to its resemblance to an ancient Babylonian ziggurat. It is located at 85, Vauxhall Cross in the south western part of central London, along the Albert Embankment on the bank of the River Thames beside Vauxhall Bridge.