I wanted to post a picture of the London Wall West development last night, but my aged computer has conked out, so instead I am posting the article – with pictures – when the scheme was first announced.
Interestingly, and not surprisingly, they are no longer using the key image which demonstrates that the big residential blocks planned to open in 2033 are roughly twice as high as the existing residential blocks of the Barbican and it would appear as high as the dome of St. Paul’s, which is not, as it is made to appear in the computer graphics, in the far distance, but less than half a mile away.
Instead, they use lovely graphics which make it seem as if they are just creating a lush new urban park, not a massive speculative development in an area of extreme sensitivity.
Poor old Sir Philip Powell’s Museum of London which was itself part of a grand new of urban development less than fifty years ago will be razed to the ground by 2028.
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