I spent the morning exploring the area round the old Museum of London, which is now scheduled for demolition if the City of London planning committee gives the Corporation of London permission to demolish the building, although this would seem to be contrary to its own recently issued planning advice to retain existing buildings where possible.

I don’t think I had appreciated how complex a site Powell & Moya were given for the Museum of London, some of it the space on top of a roundabout:-

It was required to occupy a narrow site south of the tudorbethan Ironmonger’s Company:-

What I had never experienced before is the strange charm of the lawn to its east, the Barber-Surgeon’s meadow, a small oasis in the heart of the city with a surviving fragment of an old Roman fort:-

Presumably much of this will disappear in the plans for its redevelopment, along with Bastion House, which the City authorities say is falling down:-