Elements of the dismantled Marble Arch Mound that Dutch studio MVRDV designed for central London last year are planned to be reused in the renewal of Ebury estate in Pimlico.
Materials and trees used to create the controversial attraction beside Marble Arch will be repurposed into gardens and a play area at the redeveloped housing complex.
The plans form part of the wider redevelopment of the red-brick Ebury estate, which is being overseen by Westminster City Council ? the same body that commissioned the Marble Arch Mound.
Elements of the Marble Arch Mound are set to be reused at Ebury estate
Opened in July 2021, the Marble Arch Mound installation was designed by MVRDV as a temporary landscaped viewpoint intended to resemble a hill. It was commissioned by the council with the aim of enticing people back to the Oxford Street shopping district after lockdown. However, it was ridiculed by critics after it opened too early and the greenery began to die.
A decision was made to temporarily close the structure shortly after it opened, and when it reopened a month later entry fees were scrapped. It closed permanently in January 2022.

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Westminster City Council's deputy leader Melvyn Caplan who oversaw the project resigned over the scheme, for which costs spiralled from £3.3 million to £6 million.
Since then, MVRDV has blamed Westminster Cit...