London architecture
The building from Covent Garden, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, is one of the new buildings that integrate perfectly in the old front. With an H shaped limestone outline that ends at the same height as the neighbored houses the building leaves its last storey to pop up above the old buildings, without that being felt like an aggressive gesture. Even if the building is mostly made of glass, the solid walls and the arch above the two lower floors make sure that this building looks as solid as the other old buildings which are mostly made of stone. Like many other cases, the proportions of the windows as well as the floor heights are borrowed from the near buy buildings so that the new and the old would speak the same language.
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