A walking tour exploring the shifting shape of contemporary architecture through the latest additions of The City of London.
The Square Mile is London’s contemporary architectural playground and a space of perpetual change. Amidst the unlikely framework of the capital’s most ancient streets, a suite of ever more dazzling monuments to international finance and global commerce reach up and out in a bewildering, awe-inspiring and sometimes shocking mix of old and new. From fine-tuned brilliance and engineered beauty to thumping mediocrity and plain ugliness, this walk explores the evolution of space, style and scale through The City’s 21st century additions charting two decades of incredible transformation and ongoing argument.
A walking tour by The London Ambler – Mike Althorpe