The Peninsula London

I bought this as a gift for my parents who love London, and the section on the hotel's construction overruns is oddly fascinating. The Hyde Park views come through beautifully in the plates.

The photos of the Hyde Park suites alone are worth the price, but it's the detail on how the hotel was built over thirty-five years that really got me. I bought this as a gift for my dad and ended up keeping it for myself.

The chapter on the building's construction history is genuinely fascinating, especially the details about how they pulled off a project that cost over £1 billion. I've flipped back to the Hyde Park and Wellington Arch spreads more times than I'd like to admit — the scale of it all comes through beau