London’s Skyline: A View From the Century with Dr Matt Green
Atop the roof terrace of the Century Club, discover how London was transformed from a remote Roman fortress into the biggest city on the face of the earth over two thousand restless years, cracking out of its medieval shell, sprawling into the suburbs and blossoming into (depending on your perspective) “a Human awful wonder of God” (William Blake) or “the necropolis of the world” (Flora Tristan).
In this talk, historian Matthew Green will point out the motley and sometimes bizarre architectural features of London’s skyline which are visible from the Club’s terrace: the mock Gothic Palace of Westminster; Centre Point, the capital’s “first pop art building”; the old City of London, now dominated by grotesque, outsized domestic objects (the Cheese Grater, the Walkie Talkie and the Gherkin); and, beyond them, the steel turbines of capitalism arranged on the horizon at Canary Wharf.
Take in the sheer height of the metropolis, learning how both the Great Fire and the Blitz left much of the city looking like the surface of the moon, London built for the stars once more; feel a chill slither down your back as you come to realise that these mighty edifices, these gleaming sky-scrapers are quite possibly the ghettos of the future.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday 27th August
Location: Century Club Members Club
Time: From 7 pm
Price: £12 per person
Capital A List member perk: Members access
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