The Isle of Dogs is a happy hunting ground for postmodern architecture. This is unsurprising. The still-continuing construction boom on the peninsula began in the late 80s just as postmodernism was peaking. The Limehouse Link skirts the northern boundaries of the area, and was the most expensive road scheme in Britain (per mile) when it opened in 1993. Either end is guarded by these imposing portals. They look like someone’s disassembled No 1 Poultry and Charing Cross station, then reassembled the pieces into the postmodern equivalent of a brick shithouse. The bulky twins are lightened with artwork, including the abstract piece by Nigel Hall shown above.
They look like someone’s disassembled No 1 Poultry and Charing Cross station, then reassembled the pieces into the postmodern equivalent of a brick shithouse.
