2012-01-03
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“ The appearance of the building has created what Travers calls a “new mental geography” of the capital. For example the presence of the Shard makes suddenly obvious what every London taxi driver already knew: that the quickest way from Westminster to the City is via the South Bank. ”
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the LSE, quoted in Robert Booth’s good overview of London’s Shard: a ‘tower of power and riches’ looking down on poverty in The Guardian. (Also covered: its role as a “soft power” play by the Qataris.)
2011-03-19
Bridges: A Guide (1/3)
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Photographs by Annie Mole and myself.
(As an aside: because Tower Bridge is in London, and so many people get this wrong, looking for photos of London Bridge on Flickr (and probably Google Images) is really, really hard. Sigh.)
