So you're designing a new building, but the one at the existing location has some sort Listed status / preservation order on the street-facing wall.

What to you do?

a) Find a different site to erect (pffft) your masterpiece.

b) Get the building de-Listed then tear it all down in one go.

c) Shore up the Listed wall with scaffolding and some serious steelwork, tear down the rest of the building and then tuck a new one in behind it.

The answer, of course, is (c).


Street view. Just another load of scaffolding in the City?


Side view.


Crazy stuff. (Click for bigger).

I saw this on the 149 on the way home from my brother's flat the other week and hopped off the bus to take these. You can see the monument at, er, Monument in the background of picture number 2 - it's also up in scaffolding while they clean it.