Braidwood Passage – Nicely reinvented with hand-made tiles

The scaffold has been removed and Braidwood Passage is again available as a link between Aldersgate Street and Cloth Street. It's a delight – and really uplifting to see some attractive new architecture, employing unusual bespoke decorative elements. 

This teal blue tiled wall with splashes of colour beckoned me to investigate its full length. The V-shape or zig-zag tiles form a lattice effect and are randomly interspersed with unique hand-painted designs in pinks, yellows and red by Alexis Teplin. It's a delight.

I wonder if these patterns depict something specific, or perhaps they form a whole image or design when placed together. 

The next two pics show the Cloth Street end (left) and then half-way back to Aldersgate Street looking across to The Barbican complex (right):

Nice. More about the project can me found on Fletcher Priest Architects site here. 

As I write this, I've just noticed that the City of London bollards that have been installed at both ends are not the same as the one that was at the Barbican end before the reconstruction of this site – the 'new' ones are a different shape and don't sport the coat of arms – see previous year here.

Here's the main entrance of the building which echoes the lattice zig-zag effect as panels set at an angle across the façade:

Here's hoping that the Museum of London building on the opposite side of the street (a sad loss imho) will be replaced with something similarly attractive.