There was an excellent article in the Observer a couple of weeks back about Centre Point, which I'm going to post about soon. In the meantime, here's a quotation from that article (by Stephen Bayley) on the three worlds beneath Centre Point's tower:
What Williams [Paul Williams, the architect looking to change Centre Point] and his partners did was Google Earth the entire plot and realise that a grimy confluence of buses and junkies was in fact the point where the three cultures of Bloomsbury, Soho and Covent Garden collide. And what the new plan will achieve is an inspirational demonstration of urban 'unplugging': releasing latent potential in existing buildings.
