
The Towers · 1956
Tudor Gardens
2 Tudor City Place · No. 2
What is true
The thirteenth building, added nineteen years after the rest — by a different hand, in a different style, filling the gap in the ring.
What it became
For nineteen years there was a door here instead of a building. Wren is exactly as old as the gap.
The nineteen-year door
For nineteen years there was a door here instead of a building. Wren is exactly as old as the gap. Drag the years — and let the thirteenth building rise to fill it.
1937 1956
The gap is filled. The door is a door again. “There. Now I'm exactly as old as a building, not a hole.” — Wren