Together they plant and tend a fragile garden in the unforgiving urban wasteland.

So while the current views over empty warehouses, urban wasteland and building sites are not as dreamy as the spires, it will not look like this for ever.

Deadpan and speaking alternately they recall being happy when they were little, running wild with each other in an urban wasteland.

Far from the traditional urban wasteland colonised first by graffiti artists, then by coffee roasters and cereal cafes, it's still the business hub.

A scrappy corner of urban wasteland next to a high-speed railway line can, with imagination, be transformed into a building filled with peace, space and light.