Remi: Reflections of the sitevisit...

Printed off the OS base from digimap 1:2000 (A1), will take it with me tomorrow. Managed to take a walk on site tonight in the freezing cold. This time from elephant&castle to Southwark tube station. Unfortunately I've no photos to share... for eyesoreit. Was too dark today and didn't manage to take that bicycle ride on Sunday. Although it was a lovely weather then.

For me there are 4 charachter areas ( see below). Approaching from E&C:
1. London road ending with St Georges circus and an obelisk... apetizer for the arts quarter. There are already some bits of that feeling. Saw some red-green lightballs attached to the branches of trees.

2. Waterloo and Blackfriars roads as dense , noisy transit areas, high building front. The idea quite obvious... to provide quick access to other parts of the city.... but in between. Just take any of the smaller streets inside the block and it's like a different world. Low housing and quite irregular pattern of streets. I think perfect for pedestrianisation and arty stuff :)

3. The middle area: Southwark tube station and Waterloo East rail links crossing the area. Some higher new office buildings (London Dev. Agency for example), secondary traffic and small shops etc.

4. Area between Tate modern and railroad. Saw some garages and kind of leftover spaces which would be perfect for installations or artists workshops.


So, that's my initial responce to what I saw... Perhaps it's worth posting everything also to the blog or just use the blog?? So we'd have one place to have everything collected...

Question for Marie-Therese... How often and when do you think you'll be in London?