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Shortlist revealed for My Beautiful Launderette revamp

By 2022-03-18T07:00:00

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Source: London Festival of Architecture

LFA and Lambeth council announce Wilcox Road finalists

The finalists in the Wilcox Road Gateway competition have been announced by the London Festival of Architecture and Lambeth council.

The contest sought ideas from architects and artists to improve the public realm of a local shopping street leading to the new Nine Elms Tube station.

Wilcox Road was the location of the eponymous laundry in My Beautiful Launderette, the 1985 film by Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears starring Daniel Day Lewis.

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