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摘要

With its cascading green plants, a proposed apartment development on top of an old bingo hall promises to be a modern-day hanging gardens - albeit in Clapham, south London, rather than Babylon. What passers-by are unlikely to realise is that the apartments are hanging too. This unusual structural solution will -subject to planning - enable a long abandoned bingo hall to become a commercially viable redevelopment. Originally a cinema built in 1937, this grade Ⅱ—listed former bingo hall has a particularly fine auditorium with a highly decorative ceiling. Because this could not be altered or subdivided, it has put off potential purchasers for the past seven years. Now developer Grange Estates plans to make the project financially viable by selling new apartments and using the money to restore the auditorium and allow it to be used by cash-poor voluntary and religious groups. Forty-nine apartments will be created inside and at the rear of the building, but the really smart move is the proposal to suspend 18 apartments above the building without disturbing the auditorium ceiling.