Friday, 27 June 2014

BRIDGE @ Museum in Docklands

You could argue that London Bridge created London (or Londinium anyway)... ...now the Museum in Docklands has a fun exhibition on how London's bridges have altered the London Landscape


 

Bridge is the largest art exhibition ever to be staged at the Museum of London Docklands and Features rarely seen contemporary and historical artworks, alongside photography and film, to consider the significance of bridges within London’s landscape. - See more at: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/docklands/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/bridge/#sthash.PdToCfgR.dpuf


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From Hungerford to Blackfriars, Westminster and Millennium, Bridge also looks at how London’s bridges allow people to move around and experience the city, and looks ahead to projects such as Thomas Heatherwick’s ambitious ‘Garden Bridge’ proposal to consider how this landscape may change.

Friday, 13 June 2014

London's changing skyline


With at least 200 new skyscrapers to be added to the city, will London be recognisable - or is the character of London going to be irrevocably altered... ...for the worse?   Is London Mayor Boris carrying on his predecessor Ken Livingstone's policy of increasing skyscrapers in central London?

Shard to Walkie-Scorchie