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London’s Marble Arch Mound closes after a turbulent six-month run

Marble Arch Mound, an 82-foot-tall artificial hill and urban lookout point that first debuted in central London late last July only to be greeted by a crushing landslide of derision and ...
The Conversation

London’s Marble Arch Mound was a fiasco in a city losing so many green spaces – but pop-up parks can work

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CNN

Marble Arch Mound: London’s newest attraction is a heap of earth

It’s the home of Tower Bridge, the Houses of Parliament and that great big wheel spinning beside the Thames, but London’s newest tourist attraction might just eclipse them all – at least, in notoriety ...
The Architects' Journal

Reed Watts to build temporary theatre next to Marble Arch

Reed Watts Architects has secured consent to build a 500-seat temporary theatre next to Marble Arch in central London ...
Forbes

How The Marble Arch Mound Turned Into ‘London’s Worst Tourist Attraction’

The Marble Arch Mound opened then closed as a shopping catalyst turned into a social media field day. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) When London city bodies Westminster City Council and ...
Chicago Sun-Times

London’s new tourist ‘mound,’ panned by early visitors, shut down after just 2 days

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Business Insider

I visited London's infamous Mound — an $8 million fake hill that's being called the city's worst attraction

The Marble Arch Mound opened in July and was intended to attract people to London's retail center. The project's boss quit after costs spiralled to $8.25 million — $3.7 million more than planned. The ...
THE WEEK

Marble Arch Mound: London’s £2m ‘s**t hill’ roundly ridiculed

A new tourist attraction in London’s Marble Arch has fallen short of expectations, with visitors describing the £2m manmade mound as a “s**t hill” and “the worst thing I’ve ever done in London”.
New Atlas

Hillside attraction lets tourists see London from a different perspective

Visitors to London's Marble Arch will soon be able to see the area from a whole new perspective thanks to an unusual project by MVRDV. The firm plans to install a hollow hill-like structure in the UK ...
Forbes

London To Build Hill At Marble Arch To Lure Back Tourists

It’s been a bleak picture for London’s Oxford Street since the pandemic started with the last 12 months being the worst ever on record. Before Covid-19, the area attracted over 200 million people a ...
U.S. News & World Report

The Marble Arch by Montcalm London

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