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@hoefla
hallelujah!
I was just about to go out and take the shot I'd originally intended to, which would have been a LOT more obvious.
Walbrook Building = new view
excavation site in view (not so obvious in photos but in real life that's what you can see through the building) = old place
soon to be covered up by the new development going on top = won't last long
Jurek correctly identified the Walbrook as a river runs through it
the funny little court/garden is between St Stephen Walbrook church and St Swithins Lane on the map = a garden between two saints
bullish gods are coming home is actually a reference to the Temple of Mithras that was unearthed there in the 1950's, rather shoddily reconstructed down the road, and is due to return to the site with the new development. Mithra had something to do with a bull. I'm not really up on my classical theology - the carvings are in the Museum of London though.
in Roman times it lay between east and west = the Walbrook basically divided old Londinium in two.
and finally...
google results 1-5 for "the developing city" refer to the Walbrook Building (the name of an exhibition there at the moment)