When, later, some tower blocks, designed by Arata Isozaki, the Japanese architect, were built nearby, Isozaki was also commissioned to add a walkway to the Calatrava bridge, in order to facilitate access to his own development.
This represents a partial reversion to the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, the residential blocks designed by Le Corbusier in the late 1940's.
Ten barrack blocks designed by A. Gilpin were built around the parade ground in 1925, as was the RAF officers' hospital and the original Operations Room, controlled by the Fighting Area of Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB).
The concept of tiny robots designed to replicate like living cells dates back to Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), but the Self-Assembly Lab draws more inspiration from experiments in the 1950s using wooden blocks designed by psychiatrist, mathematician, and geneticist Lionel Penrose.
Hence a sprouting of towers and blocks designed by celebrity architects such as Norman Foster, Richard Meier, John Pawson, Herzog and de Meuron, and the Mexican Enrique Norten as well as Zaha Hadid.
There will be 6,000 homes across five new neighbourhoods within the park, as well as the gargantuan commercial centre of the £2bn Stratford International Quarter, which will see 4m square feet (370,000 square metres) of office space in a complex of swollen glass blocks, designed by an unholy alliance of second-rate corporate architects.
But, at least temporarily, the decaying flats and empty walkways of the high-rise block, designed by Erno Goldfinger, will be brought back to life as the stage for Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
They were married in 1939 and held their wedding party at Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, north London, the apartment block designed by their friend Wells Coates, now regarded as an iconic building of that period.
Evgeny Asse, a 70-year-old architect who has lived on Patriarch's Ponds since 1948, in an apartment block designed by his father, also an architect, recalled that in the 1950s, the district was far from glamorous.
The mustard-yellow Grade II listed Stable Block, designed by architect Roger Morris with a Palladian influence, was ordered by Charles, Fifth Earl of Sutherland in the early 1730s.
