Temporary Container Mall in London
- Heide Wessely
Shoreditch is a vibrant, up-and-coming district in London’s East End. Its gentrification is nearly complete, thanks in part to the opening of the Shoreditch High Street train station in 2010. The station is an extended concrete structure. Its closed, almost brutal-looking facade runs nearly parallel to Bethnal Green Road, a main traffic artery of the East End. There are plans to develop the strip of unused land between the concrete wall and the road, together with the larger former railway tract on the southern side of the new station. However, as this project, encompassing as it does 4.7 hectares of land, will remain in the planning stages for several more years, an interim solution for the roadside strip was needed.
