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We will be launching the 2021 programme at 12pm on 11 August 2021

  • Union Yard Arches
  • Union Yard Arches before
  • Union Yard Arches
  • Low Line waymarkers
  • Low Line waymarkers

Low Line - Walking Tour

Various architects

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Meet at cycle hire docking station behind Southwark Tube station off Blackfriars Road
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Cycle docking station behind Southwark Tube station , Blackfriars Road, SE1 8JZ

Travel Information

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Nearest tube: Southwark
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Nearest train: Waterloo (East), Waterloo, Blackfriars
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Bus routes: 381, 63, 40
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Guided walking tour of the Low Line - an emerging world-class walking destination, linking a network of creative and cultural nodes along the base of the Victorian rail viaducts between Bankside and Bermondsey in south London.

Events

Saturday 11th September
Guided Walk
schedule Time: 1pm to 3.30pm
group Capacity: 20

Design

Original design
Various architects, 2013
Type
Art in the public realm, Community/cultural, Industrial, Mixed use, Public realm/landscape, Transport, Walk/tour
Period
Historical/contemporary

  • A new direction for South London

    The Low Line will transform and open up the walking routes that run along the base of the Victorian viaducts across south London creating a new destination for London.

    These mighty viaducts link Waterloo and Bankside with London Bridge, Bermondsey and beyond across South London.

    The Low Line will deliver world-class public spaces, helping to build social connections with communities along its route and unlock the economic potential of the railway arches to support a diverse and creative local economy.

    The walking tour will finish in Bermondsey at the Blue Market

    Architects:
    TDO Architects
    JA Projects
    PDP London
    Macfarlane and Assocs
    Greengage
    Gort Scott
    SPPARC ARCHITECTURE
    rkg partnership
    Studio Weave
    Architecture 00

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