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The most radical version of London that she proposes is as an emerging sovereign city-state, one that has left the United Kingdom and rejoined the EU. It is governed from what in today’s reality is still the Bloomberg HQ near St Paul’s, with the English parliament transferred to Warrington in Cheshire.
In this version of London, Soho House members club has turned Richard Rogers’ former Lloyds Insurance building into a multistorey, 24-hour nightclub.
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The much more likely of her three possible future cities is that of a London as a Unesco-designated World Heritage Site suffocated by the weight of its own past. Piccadilly Circus is already overwhelmed by troupes of visiting teenagers. Covent Garden is choked by people on cycle tours. In future, they will move from one English Heritage recreation of a dealing room staffed with waxwork effigies of traders in red braces and striped shirts to the next.
In this version of London, Soho House members club has turned Richard Rogers’ former Lloyds Insurance building into a multistorey, 24-hour nightclub.
From Deyan Sudjic in ft - on about william gibson, the odious heatherwick, Mare St ...
