12/27/2023 0 Comments London global city wordpressMost often, the arches are structural elements of railway overpasses. Viewed from the road beneath, however, it looks as though a park stretches across the Valley - linking east and west as if protesting the expressway that carved a permanent barrier between the Valley’s edges.ĭuring my travels to and around London - particularly the South Bank of the Thames - I’m always impressed with the city’s use of formerly-industrial archway space. From satellite imagery I’ve determined that indeed, train tracks run through its middle. The garden-bridge proposal, by Heatherwick Studios, reminds me of a bridge that crosses over Toronto’s Don Valley (and its parkway) that I’ve fantasized converting into a similarly spanning oasis.įrom the perspective of driving down the Don Valley Parkway, the bridge already looks wild, with wide green spaces of brush, bushes and trees running along its sides. The proposed green-bridge would be built across the Thames linking and enlivening two newly built neighbourhoods on the river’s edges. The romance of a bridge is inherent, and we do them a great disservice by purposing them for one simple task: moving cars. A new project in London proposes converting a bridge over the Thames into a lush, green park: London’s High Line over the river.
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