![]() “I try to imagine who would live there, but it is just so big, I can’t,” Roggen says. Photos of the interior, published by developers, show a hollow shell, with crumbling internal walls, missing floorboards and half-ripped-out bathrooms. I wouldn’t live there even if I could afford it “There has only ever been one light on, in one small room in the basement.” I try to imagine who’d live there, but I can’t. “It is totally vacant, there’s nothing in it at all – not even doors,” he says. Roggen, who grew up on a farm in Bavaria and feels “blessed” to live in the centre of London, has tried peering through the windows, but that provided few clues. “On both my morning and evening walks I pass it, and I want to know more and more about it.” “It is the talk of the neighbourhood,” says Roggen, who is tall, thin and dressed all in black, with a mop of artfully messy dark hair. He lives in a top-floor, two-bedroom flat owned by his “much richer boyfriend”, 100 metres up the street. ![]() Like many neighbours, though, Roggen, 48, is obsessed with it.
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