Boat planter

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Boat planter
Little Venice, City of Westminster
London, September 2003

Westbourne Terrace Road bridge

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Westbourne Terrace Road bridge
Westbourne Terrace Road
Little Venice, City of Westminster
London, September 2003

Butterfly Bridge

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Rotherhithe Tunnel Footbridge by Nicholas Lacey and Partners, 1998
St James Gardens, Rotherhithe
London, September 2003

“This footbridge spans across the northern approach road to Rotherhithe Tunnel in east London, providing a direct route from St James Gardens at its north end to various streets and housing at its south end. The south end spills onto a piazza behind the horrible post-modern ventilation building which sits over the west portal of another tunnel, the Limehouse Link, completed in 1993. The bridge connection is useful but not vital. There’s an alternative route a short distance to the east, but that involves crossing the Rotherhith Tunnel roadway at grade, so the bridge is a welcome alternative. The footbridge was built for £550,000 in 1998, to a design by Nicholas Lacey and Partners with Whitby Bird and Engineers and WS Atkins. It was reportedly nicknamed the "butterfly bridge" at the time. Obviously something was in the air as a similar twin inclined arch bridge also nicknamed the ‘butterfly bridge’ was built in Bedford the year before, with a different design team. Whitby Bird and Lacey also collaborated on the St Saviour's Dock swing bridge around the same time, and there are definitely some similarities.” (Rotherhithe Tunnel Footbridge, The Happy Pontist)

Former mill chimney

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Former mill chimney
Rayleigh Road
London, September 2003

The Dock and Canary Wharf

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Royal Victoria Dock and Canary Wharf
Seen from the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge
London, September 2003

Royal Victoria Dock Bridge

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Royal Victoria Dock Bridge
Royal Victoria Dock
London, September 2003

“The Royal Victoria Dock Bridge is a signature high-level footbridge crossing the Royal Victoria Dock in the Docklands area of east London designed by London-based architects and designers Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. The bridge provides a direct link from Eastern Quay and Britannia Village, a residential development to the south of the dock, to the ExCeL Exhibition Centre and Custom House station, both situated to the north of the dock. The bridge takes the form of an inverted Fink truss, with six masts rising above the deck at 25.5 m (84 ft) centres, varying in height from almost 30 m (100 ft) at each end to just 10.6 m (35 ft) for the smallest masts. The shape of the bridge is designed to reflect the masts of the sailing boats which use the dock. The bridge crosses the dock with a clearance of some 15 m (50 ft) above the water, a height which was necessary to allow yachts to pass below the bridge deck. The bridge is accessed at each end by lift and stair towers. The bridge was completed in 1998, at a cost of £5 million. A second construction stage envisaged in the bridge's design involves the addition of a glass passenger cabin travelling on a rail of the underside of the deck to make this a transporter bridge.[2]” (Royal Victoria Dock Bridge, Wikipedia)

The Sower

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The Sower by Hamo Thornycroft, 1886
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kew, Richmond
London, September 2003