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London City Island in the Leamouth Peninsula was developed by EcoWorld Ballymore. - Credit: Gordon Shrigley Architect Gordon Shrigley stumbled across London City Island in the Leamouth Peninsula during lockdown, and has given this newspaper his view of the "kooky" development.  A Covid-19 lockdown cycle tour of Canning Town found me at the Leamouth Peninsula, which has recently been redesigned from the ground up by Glenn Howells Architects. To celebrate the reinvention of the peninsula, developer EcoWorld Ballymore has renamed it London City Island - which given it isn’t actually an...

Architect Gordon Shrigley analyses the recently completed Hackney Gardens project - Credit: Benedict Luxmoore Architect Gordon Shrigley takes a look at how building materials can showcase an area's varied history and analyses the recently completed Hackney Gardens project.  To design a new part of a city requires the diligent architect to consider whether to enhance what already exists or to demolish and start again. Cities, on the whole, come to be not by the imposition of a grand masterplan, but mainly through happenstance. All cities are the result of many competing hands, each with a uni...