Going bananas on the DLR

By Martin Spring and Martin Spring Martin Spring 2008-01-25T00:00:00

Source: Edmund Sumner / View

When Consarc Consulting Architects set out to design a ‘landmark’ station for the Docklands Light Railway in a dreary part of east London, it took the unusual approach of topping it with a 32m white banana. And the even stranger thing, writes Martin Spring, is that it works …

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