VICTORIA'S SUPER NOVA

摘要

Deeeeeep. A whistle sounds shrill above the cacophony that crowds London's Victoria as a truck laden with building materials growls slowly forward in the area's stuttering traffic. Orange-suited marshals spring into action halting pedestrians "and clattering open giant gates. Seconds later the truck has disappeared, vanished behind a black site hoarding, the gates are closed and the traffic resumes its faltering crawl. This well-drilled scenario is enacted scores of times a day as contractor Mace implements carefully planned actions that will keep Phase One of the Nova Victoria project fed with materials. This initial phase of the giant £2.2bn project is the largest and most complex of three construction phases. It includes construction of two angular crystal-like office buildings, the 11-storey Nova North and 15-storey Nova South, along with the 13-storey Nova apartment block and a cavernous, four-level basement.