Command Bunker, Southbank, London

Command bunker dating from the German occupation of London in 1940, following the success of Operation Sealion (*)

 

 

(*) Having recently visited some of the World War 2 fortifications in Jersey, dating from the German occupation, I was struck by how similar some of the post-war, Brutalist architecture in London looked. So I did a little mini-project looking for points of comparison - and this is my re-imagining of history based on what I saw..

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