Silvertown, London: the lure of urban desolation
[By James Hobbs in London] London’s Urban Sketchers were recently invited to draw Silvertown, a major £3.5 billion regeneration project in east London’s docklands that will turn the derelict post-industrial wasteland into what aims to be the city’s “new creative capital” with 3,000 new homes and 21,000 new jobs. Named after its 19th-century founder Samuel […]