Completion of Watermark Place and the riverside walkway has created a pedestrian-friendly walk to rival that on the South Bank. The monumental Mondial House telephone exchange building, famously modelled on a typewriter key board and clad in white fibre glass, has given way to a building set back from the river and partly clad in weathered oak reminiscent of the medieval remains still visible on the foreshore.

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• Green City
• Modern buildings walk