Couple of weeks really. Summarising progress and picking out some highlights for comment.
I’m calling this a weekly bulletin as opposed to the “live stream” which is the more spontaneous posts that go out direct to LinkedIn and give a flavour of the work I am doing on that particular day. First thing to mention is the site context, a linked file that has massing models for the locations around of all six of Hawksmoor’s London churches. I did a bit of an update to this to clean things up and sort out some odd levels, plus extend a green surface down to the river. I actually added a few building blocks in that area, dotted around so it doesn’t look so empty.
I’m showing the canal (the Limehouse cut) but not the Limehouse Basin, because all those man-made docks were built much later. The wharfs and warehouses were directly on the river during the 18thcentury. There is a small creek at Limehouse which would have been a handy docking location in Hawksmoor’s day. Read more