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Article: Ashes to ashes: two gateway pavilions help define Potters' Fields Park on London's thriving south bank.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Potters' Fields Park is one of only a few green spaces on London's south bank, situated opposite the Tower of London, in-between Tower Bridge and City Hall. The brief was to design a pair of gateway pavilions as entrances to the Park: Parkside, to the south of City Hall, containing restaurant, public conveniences, ATMs, and curiously, existing vent shafts and a garage for the City Hall's window-cleaning crane. And Blossom Square, in the shadow of Tower Bridge, that provides retail facilities, a sheltered seating area and park store. Conceived as grottoes, their carved form was derived from movement and view analysis, and the colour of Parkside responds to the strong ...
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