{"id":108870,"date":"2019-07-10T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/londons-answer-to-new-yorks-high-line-you-must-be-joking\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:11:48","slug":"londons-answer-to-new-yorks-high-line-you-must-be-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/londons-answer-to-new-yorks-high-line-you-must-be-joking\/","title":{"rendered":"London's answer to New York's High Line? You must be joking"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA tree-scattered, elevated walkway through air vents, The Tide is a textbook piece of artwash and greenwash \u2013 more pointless whimsy amid the tortured cityscape of Greenwich PeninsulaAlmost 20 years since the unveiling of the Millennium Dome, which promised to transform the post-industrial wastes of the Greenwich Peninsula, the area has become a junkyard of half-baked ideas and botched plans. Emerging from the tube station, you are confronted with a cacophony of competing structures: the tilting concrete struts supporting a glass canopy swerve drunkenly towards a wall of fat towers clad in a chequerboard of bronze, champagne and metallic dog-turd brown.To the right looms a bulbous sales-suite-cum-gallery, to the left the jazzy shed of Ravensbourne College, while all around lie assorted oddments of public art and curated happenings, from a huge, twisted steel spire to a surreal dinner party in the sky \u2013 a table suspended from a crane where you can eat dinner, strapped to a seat, for \u00a3200. Completing the panorama of pointless whimsy, the pylons of Boris Johnson\u2019s costly cable car stretch across the Thames in the distance. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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