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OUR STORY STARTS HERE 4 — 11 LOCATION 12 — 25 ARCHITECTURE 26 — 35 AMENITIES 36 — 49 INTERIORS 50 — 67 MATERIALS & SPECIFICATION 68 — 75 SITE OVERVIEW 76 — 77 BARRATT LONDON 78 — 79 OUR STORY STARTS HERE 5 | 6 OUR STORY STARTS HERE. IN AROUND AD 43, ON THE RIVERSIDE BETWEEN BLACKFRIARS AND TOWER HILL, THE ROMANS ESTABLISHED LONDINIUM. TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER, LONDON’S ROMAN ORIGINS LIE DEEP BENEATH ITS STREETS, BUT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THAT FIRST SETTLEMENT, ON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES, LIES LANDMARK PLACE, LONDON’S ORIGINAL ADDRESS. COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE FOR INDICATIVE PURPOSES ONLY LANDMARK PLACE IS A BUILDING OF SUBSTANCE: ELEGANT, REFINED, AND ENTIRELY SUITED TO ITS ICONIC POSITION. A LANDMARK IN DESIGN, IN LOCATION, AND IN LONDON’S CONTINUING STORY. COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE FOR INDICATIVE PURPOSES ONLY OUR STORY STARTS HERE THE CITY’S RIVERSIDE For millennia, ships have sailed for London’s north shore, bringing goods from the furthest corners of the known world. Around this quay, the modern City has grown and flourished, a global capital, its landmarks clustered about its ancient core. 11 | 12 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE FOR INDICATIVE PURPOSES ONLY LOCATION FIRST LIGHT. THE DAY BEFORE YOU, HISTORY JUST BENEATH YOUR FEET. 15 | 16 THE FIRST CITY OF LONDON Two thousand years ago, at a strategic Thames crossing, Britannia’s most important city was founded. Within seven years of the Roman invasion of AD 43, Londinium was established around a strategic crossing point with deep water access to the Thames’ north bank, now the heart of the modern City. The new settlement swiftly became a major trading post, the centre of the road network of the new Roman province of Britannia.
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