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Posted: 19 Oct 2010

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City Hall from Tower Bridge - 26.8.2008

City Hall from Tower Bridge - 26.8.2008
The view before the Shard.
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 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
I'd prefer to see the view before City Hall!
9 years ago.
Phil Sutters club has replied to Isisbridge club
I have a book of photos of the Thames riverside called London's Lost Riverscape. It was commissioned by the Port of London Authority in 1937. That stretch of wharves must have been among the least picturesque or even characterful of all the docklands. They are a real jumble with very utilitarian styles. The ones that have been been turned into high-end apartments are the better looking ones around St.Saviour's Dock and Hays Wharf. At least the Southwark riverside has a bit of cohesion and comparable scale, the Shard apart. Just look across the River and look at the chaos the City fathers have allowed.
On a smaller scale there are lots of interesting artworks and building decorations around in Southwark, which you can see in my Public Art in Southwark album - www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/500883
9 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Phil Sutters club
Sorry, but I don't see anything picturesque about this glass lump!
9 years ago.
 Phil Sutters
Phil Sutters club
I didn't call it picturesque, but then neither were its predecessors on that site. You have to look hard to find real 'picturesque' in London now. If it hasn't been knocked down and rebuilt, it has been sanitized or gentrified.
9 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Phil Sutters club
I agree. London is being lost to the so-called regeneration. But I can't believe that even the messiest jumble of old wharves could have looked worse than the glass banality that has replaced it. I was horrified when I first saw this lot from the Tower of London, after not having been to London for many years. And the other bank is monstrous.
9 years ago.

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