![]() ![]() When I returned to the area this May, it was completely unrecognizable to me, apart from the immaculately proportioned Victorian storehouses their brown bricks freshly scrubbed, they seemed to stand proudly against the cornflower-blue sky. When the 'extreme' nine-member Harris family from Birmingham, Alabama received the remarkable news that their house would get an 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,' Chris and Diamond Harris were thankful that some of the exhaustion that stems from taking care of their toddler sextuplets and nine-year-old son DeWayne would finally be relieved. Soon after, work started on a new, sustainable city quarter filled with parks, cultural centers, housing, offices and restaurants, with the historic Lewis Cubitt-designed buildings at its heart. ![]() Pancras station, that masterpiece of Gothic Revivalism. Things began to look up in 2007, when Eurostar, the rail line between London and Paris, began service from St. Two train stations and a handful of clubs that blasted house music across disused railroad tracks were the only reasons to come here. Back then, King’s Cross was London’s ultimate neighborhood of ill repute: an industrial hub turned industrial wasteland colonized by squatters, pimps and prostitutes. The last time I was here so early was over a decade ago, squinting at the daylight after a long night of clubbing. ![]() LEWIS CUBITT SQUARE, King’s Cross, on a sunny Saturday morning in late May. ![]()
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