ALMOST LOST: LONDON'S BUILDINGS LOVED AND LOATHED

摘要

From Covent Garden to Piccadilly Circus, Soho to Battersea Power Station, many of London's most treasured historic buildings and areas were once threatened with demolition. Several proposals over the last century would have irreversibly changed the face of the capital, including a 1950s conceptual scheme for a giant conservatory supporting tower blocks over Soho and proposals a decade laterto 'replan' Whitehall by demolishing virtually all the Edwardian and Victorian buildings around Parliament Square.