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London Wall Place, UK
Commercial Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design in England, UK – design by Make Architects
15 Aug 2018
London Wall Place
Design: Make Architects
Location: City of London, England, UK
London Wall Place

Make Architects has completed work on its London Wall Place project, a new commercial scheme offering the largest set of public gardens developed in the City of London since the post-war brutalist Barbican estate on behalf of Brookfield Properties and Oxford Properties.

The scheme comprises two office buildings surrounded by extensive public realm including a series of public gardens and reimagined elevated pedestrian walkways to link the neighbouring Barbican with the City of London.
The project?s concept lies in referencing the deep history of the site, from the Romans through to post-war modernism. The scheme?s geometry is aligned with the historical urban grain created by the section of the original Roman city wall on site and its materials reference those used to build the wall. Both the wall and the medieval St Alphage Church tower on site ? hidden from public view since the 1960s ? have been beautifully restored and made a central part of the public realm, while the elevated walkways of the 1960s have been reimagined and reinstated. The architecture is designed to be a backdrop to these landmarks, not competing but simply becoming the settin...