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The sixth and final AJ/iGuzzini Place: Light First proposal aims to help regenerate the space around Wilson, Son & Aldwinkle's dilapidated but much-loved Gothic Revival Ladywell Playtower (1885) in London SE4
The Ladywell Playtower in the south London borough of Lewisham is a crumbling Grade II-listed Victorian bathhouse on the English Heritage At Risk register.
Completed in 1885, largely abandoned in the 1960s and partially destroyed in a fire in 2006, it is nonetheless an important and much-loved landmark that the local community would dearly love to see brought back into use.
'Well Lit' is our proposal to harness the power of light to attract people to congregate and dwell awhile in the space around the Playtower and, ultimately, to help it become a catalyst for community regeneration.
Unexpected ethereal rings of light dance and shift in intensity as people move beneath them, drawing people off the street while reintroducing a civic function to the space directly in front of...