The buzzword ‘green’ nowadays adds kudos to any London planning project – even if it’s a potted plant next to a bus stop, writes Lucy Kenningham
It is a strange but endearing facet of life at this newspaper that when one’s gaze inevitably wanders towards the window – however hard one concentrates on the latest financial news – it will land upon troops of dancers on the balcony below. Whatever the time, whatever the weather, they groove on.
Young, agile hipped, occasionally armed with a whirling wooden rod, they perform complicated routines with meticulous accuracy, envious synchronisation and the boundless energy of the Tiktok-fame hungry young.
It is a strange sight because it seems so incongruous: young athletic teens spending hours of their lives in the Square Mile, with only undeserving business journalists there to witness their best jubislides. Yet over time one doesn’t just get used to it, one comes to expect it and even appreciate the imaginative use of a bland, ugly concrete block as a backdrop to the CitiRokk, the Smeeze and the Kangsta Wok (all viral dance trends, City A.M. is told).
There is something deeply humanising about the misuse of space, or indeed the reappropriation of space,........