The Metropolis

City Hall as it could have been: an architectural monstrosity on the Thames

Darren Atwater | Tuesday 17 August, 2010 10:42

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In 1984, architects were asked to submit plans to redevelop the area around the Tower Bridge and the submissions were just bizarre. In addition to the neo-Jacobean above, there was ‘Venice on the Thames’, and some sort of boring thing that looks like a John Lewis in Milton Keynes.

Cooler heads prevailed and none were built. Eventually the land was used for London’s City Hall.) in 2002.

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