London School of Hygiene Disease Frieze
An Art Deco facade in Bloomsbury studded with the gilded names and figures of the insects and parasites that spread disease.
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The lowdown
Most grand buildings honour heroes and saints on their facades, but the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine took a different approach. Around its handsome 1920s building in Bloomsbury, the names of pioneering scientists are picked out in gilt, alongside something stranger, gilded bronze figures of the mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, flies and rats that carry the world's great killer diseases.
It is a fittingly unflinching choice for a school dedicated to fighting them. Look up and you will spot the enemies of public health immortalised in gold. It is free to admire, a brilliant and slightly macabre piece of scientific decoration that rewards anyone who knows to look.
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