please empty your brain below
Cracking last photo though!
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That's absolutely fascinating and hilarious. It looks as if one should walk the plank into the construction site below.
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Reminds of the "bridge to nowhere" that sat above the A20 roundabout at Swanley, anticipating (by quite a few years) the M25 passing above the junction. Its odd celebrity led to Richard Stilgoe playing the piano on top of it for a typically comic Nationwide feature.
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Soon we'll be asking where did all those Post-modernist buildings go to. It seems like there's a concerted campaign to get rid of that period of architecture.
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The bridge to nowhere is a visually appealing oddity. It highlights the environmental obscenity of demolishing and replacing a building after a mere 30 years use. Sure, cities constantly evolve but it's hard to find merit in many 21st century buildings. Old Street roundabout was never a particularly attractive area, but is now visually appalling.
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That last photo looks a bit like a diving board above a swimming pool!
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The bigger picture is that, over the last couple of decades, many of the highwalks have been dismantled or closed, despite being very helpful for pedestrians and offering a breath of (relatively) fresh air and (relative) peace and quiet amid a polluted city centre (and the City of London, whilst it does have some small green spaces around the Roman ruins, does not have any really substantial parkland open to the public -- you would need to walk for about an hour to get to somewhere like Regents Park or Hyde Park). I fear that the former Museum of London site may be next to go (the lifts from highwalk to street level are usually out of order), at least if the nasty hit-piece on the highwalks by the Evening Standard back in 2016 is anything by which to go. Unfortunately, this anti-highwalk attitude is not limited to one reviewer. When the Milton Court development went up in 2013, they explicitly said that they wished to "reassert the street" as the primary access (in fact, it is the only access), in stark contrast to the Barbican centre more widely, which is wonderfully porous with its various entrances at street and highwalk levels (although I note that tickets for Barbican events have a heading saying "Your journey starts on level G" followed by some blurb promoting their shopping concessions at that level... it is almost like they are trying to wish-away the existence of highwalk access). But I suppose our modern police state requires everybody to be funnelled via the polluted streets, lest anybody circumvent a security gate or bag search.
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Lol! Richard Stilgoe is a grand old age now but we could ask Tom Daley to come along in his budgies for a humorous photo opportunity.
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How extraordinary!
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We'd like to reassure 'anon' that the City of London Police no longer dictate architectural policy to optimise security compliance - these days we just track the microchips in your vaccine.
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We would like to make it clear the City of London Police are only joking. Honest,Guv.
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Like the bridge in i robot.
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The ghost of St Alphege will make his way on the DLR from Greenwich to haunt it
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