Plans shown off to redevelop the old Museum of London
The site of the old Museum of London is set to be redeveloped into offices, and a new ground plaza will replace the roundabout after the formal planning application was submitted.
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Plans shown off to redevelop the old Museum of London
The site of the old Museum of London is set to be redeveloped into offices, and a new ground plaza will replace the roundabout after the formal planning application was submitted.
London’s Pocket Parks: St Olave Silver Street, EC2
This is a pocket park that sits next to the busy London Wall road, but still manages to look rather pleasant to sit in despite its location.
The former Museum of London building may be saved from demolition
Plans to demolish the former Museum of London building at London Wall after it moves to a new home in Smithfield may be changed, if someone can find a better use for the old building.
New plans for the Museum of London site
When the Museum of London moves from its current London Wall site to Farringdon in a couple of years time, it will leave a large empty space behind, and now plans have been shown off as to what might happen.
Augmented reality beasties hanging around London Wall
If you wander around London Wall at the moment and peer through your smartphone's scrying eye, you might see hidden beasts coming out to play.
London’s Pocket Parks: Salters’ Gardens, EC2
This is a sunken garden not far from the Barbican that until recently was a little known space hidden from view by 1970s office blocks.
London’s Pocket Parks: All Hallows Church, EC2
This is a narrow stony pocket park with raised beds of flowers that sits on an old church graveyard overlooking London Wall.
There is in the City of London a strange dead-end - an elevated walkway that ends with you peering precariously over a steep drop. A pedway to nowhere.
London’s Pocket Parks: Bassishaw Highwalk, EC2
This is an elevated pocket park next to London Wall that's both open to visit, but sufficiently off the obvious routes so hardly known.
London’s Pedways are back – and they’re magnificent
Long maligned as bad planning done worse, the pedways are making a triumphant return to the City of London. Away with windswept concrete plazas that sat leaden upon the land and hello to filaments of steel dancing around buildings.
Public access to the medieval ruins of St Alphege church
The ruined church was a victim of post-war planning, to build wide roads and move pedestrians away from the streets, but in doing do, the new roads and highwalks isolated the ruined church from public access.
London’s Pocket Parks: Brewers Hall Garden, EC2
A less appealing garden is difficult to imagine, and if there wasn't a sign announcing that this patch of paving was actually a garden, I'd have never expected it to be one.
London’s Pocket Parks – St Anne & St Agnes, EC2
This is one of London's former graveyards turned into public park, but with the rare advantage that the church it's attached to still existing.
The fragment of London’s Roman Wall hidden in a car park
Dotted around London can be found various remnants of the original Roman Wall that once encircled it, yet one fragment is rarely seen, despite being in full view of those who know where to find it.
London Wall’s Ugliest Tower Block
Of the many post-war mistakes built in the City of London, one of the ugliest has managed to cling on determinedly, the black and steel monolith of St Alphage House.
Visiting Roman ruins hidden under a London street
Hidden away from sight in a side room next to an underground car park is one of the more important remains of the old London Wall that actually dates from before the wall was built.