Property News · June 16, 2016

Why build the garden bridge when we could plant trees on Blackfriars?


Rather than spending £175m on Thomas Heatherwick and Joanna Lumley’s floating park, architects Allies and Morrison suggest we try a cheap, cheerful and wholly supportable alternativeWhen is a garden bridge not a garden bridge? When it’s a bridge garden, according to Allies and Morrison, the Southwark-based architects who have come up with a cheap and cheerful alternative to the eye-wateringly expensive, contractually dubious proposal by Thomas Heatherwick and Joanna Lumley for a floating forest across the Thames.Rather than spending £175m on installing two gargantuan copper-nickel plant pots in the middle of the river, in a public-private business model that could burden the taxpayer for years to come, they have realised we could simply plant some trees on a bridge that already exists. But which one? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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