The gates
Empire Square
Long Lane, Southwark
London, January 2008
“Basically what you get at The Empire Square is a massive series of housing blocks that surround a totally bland and useless ‘public’ square. This square features some of the most dullest and uninviting features yet to be dreamt up by architects and landscape planners. A series of grassy enclosures with some trees straight out of an architects drawing seem to add up to the kind of landscape more akin to a model railway than a dynamic urban place of living. Entrances to the Square are guarded by large and overly ornate artistic metal gates which are closed at night to keep any night people out or to maintain what is described as ‘a secure environment’.” (Empire Square, Southwark Notes)
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