Above: part of map from QE Olympic Park website showing the location of Stratford Waterfront (and V&A Museum). The Legacy of the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage by Rachel Reeves MP This talk is tomorrow Thurs 22nd
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Tag: Olympic Park
The Shrouds of the Somme 8th-18th Nov 2018
Above: a British casualty. After 141 days the Battle of the Somme ended on 18th Nov 1916. On the first day 19,240 British men died. By the end of the battle over 1.1 million men (British,
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BBC Music, London College of Fashion, Sadler’s Wells East, V&A East: Plans for Stratford
Stratford Waterfront Redesign You may remember that because of the fuss over the view of St Paul’s from Richmond, some buildings at Stratford had to be redesigned to be lower because they stuck up behind
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More photos of the Olympic Park Building Site
Top photo: Mud, Olympic Park. May 2008 In the previous post of my photos taken of the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, most were taken from the Bow side. This post shows more from the
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Changes at Stratford
Back in March the Architects Journal ran an article headlined Major redesign for Olympicopolis to save St Paul’s views. It said that in Nov 2017 the Friends of Richmond Park called upon London Mayor Sadiq
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