Hello and welcome to the Urbanist Monocles programme, all about the built environment.
I'm your host, Andrew Tuck.
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It's just got that South African feel.
It's our annual best of recapping some of our favourite stories of the past 12 months.
We'll take a tour of a mega development going on in London's Canada Water debate.
The urban good of sporting facilities.
Imagine the feeling of going to work every day in South Africa's Constitutional Court and see how the revamped Transamerica pyramid can support San Francisco's downtown.
All that and more ahead in the next 30 minutes right here on the Urbanist with me, Andrew Tucker.
We start today with a trip to the Canada Water district in the UK capital, which is undergoing a remarkable transformation.
British Land, together with its joint venture partner, Australian super, are creating a new 53 acre mixed use district surrounded by over 130 acres of green spaces, park and woodland.
In February, we went along for a tour with Emma Cariaga, British Land's joint head of Canada Water and head of Residential.
Let's listen to the start of our journey.
Right, we're just going to go around here.
I'm just going to squeeze past you.
This is a residential building which we don't own, but they're very sweet to us and let us use it as.
A.
Viewing platform until we've built our own tower.
This is the best place to see it.
So we're standing at the top of Ontario Tower, just above the Jubilee Line station at Canada Water and we're looking out over the city skyline.