FUTURE SHELL OFFICES
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Photos from the model of the buildings from the north-west.
The basic idea is a development benefit- ting Londoners and visitors to London. The presence of the National Theatre, the Festival Hall, a smaller concert hall and Characteristic of the L. C. C. plan con- a riverside hotel, guarantees that the area ceived by Dr. Leslie Martin, its architect, will not run the risk of commercial deve- is the provision of a unique riverside lopment areas, having an intense daytime "lung" in the heart of London comparable life, but deserted after office hours. This
In was in October 1953 that the Leader A point of interest of the planning is to the open character of some of the of the London County Council disclosed at the spaciousness of the overall conception spacious quaisides in Paris. a Press Conference the future plans for when viewed in relation to such well the permanent development of the old known spaces as Trafalgar Square, the Festival of Britain site and also an area courtyard of Somerset House, Horseguards of land downstream of Waterloo Bridge. Parade, Parliament Square, etc. It was stated that sites were allocated for a theatre, a hotel, a conference centre, an exhibition gallery, a science centre, a cen- tral air terminal for London and certain blocks of offices.
RIVER
THAMES
RIVERSIDE || WALK
IL.C.C.COUNTY HALL.
2 NATIONAL THEATRE.
3 HOTEL.
4 ROYAL FESTIVAL
HALL.
S SITE OF SMALL
CONCERT HALL.
6 SITE OF SCIENCE
CENTRE.
7 DOWNSTREAM OFFICES.
B UPSTREAM OFFICES. 9OFFICE BLOCK,
12
(8)
WATERLOO
STATION
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(Above) Aerial view of the development.
(Left) The site plan.
PHOTOS ARE BY SHELL PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT.
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