Delight.ONE OF THE MOST ELEGANT AND DRAMATIC OF THE SMALL WORKS SUPPORTED BY THE MILLENNIUM COMMISSION The Millennium Commission in the United Kingdom was set up to aid communities at the end of the 2nd millennium and the start of the 3rd millennium. It used funding raised through the UK National Lottery. , THIS NEW PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE LINKING THE CITY AND SOUTHWARK WILL HAVE A MAJOR EFFECT ON LONDON. Since Wordsworth stood on Westminster Bridge Westminster Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames between Westminster and Lambeth, in London, England. one sunny morning in the dawn of the nineteenth century, looked towards St Paul's Cathedral This article is about the cathedral church of the diocese of London. For other cathedrals consecrated to Saint Paul, see Cathedral of Saint Paul. St Paul's Cathedral and declared 'earth has not anything to show more fair', the Thames has not been lucky. Delicately scaled Georgian buildings were replaced by Victorian and even more gross modern hulks, coarse utilitarian rail bridges crashed across the water, and, for all the well meaning '50s and '60s attempts to improve the South Bank, the river has become one of the least impressive in any European capital The term European capital may refer to:
The Millennium Bridge is intended to be complete in June. In a dramatic gesture, it links the City, and Wren's great cathedral with Southwark, where Giles Gilbert Scott's massive Bankside power station Bankside Power Station is located on the south bank of the Thames in the Bankside district of London. Since 2000 it has been used to house the Tate Modern art museum. has been converted into Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron (p54). For pedestrians only, the bridge will make a hitherto unimaginable connection between two sides of the capital that have often seemed to be separate cities. It is funded by the Millennium Commission (though not to the extent of being one of the 25 projects shown elsewhere in this issue). Designed by Foster & Partners, sculptor Anthony Caro and engineers Ove Arup & Partners, the simplicity of the span belies its complex generation. Light loadings allow it to become a very gentle curve supported on pre-stressed cables anchored on each side and propped by two slender Y-shaped concrete piers, elliptical el·lip·tic or el·lip·ti·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having the shape of an ellipse. 2. Containing or characterized by ellipsis. 3. a. in section. Ten or 20 years ago, such a structure would have been all advertisement: proud erections of masts and cables emphasizing their functions. Five years ago, in the wrong hands, it could have had the dumb aggressive dullness of cable-staying. Now, it promises to be as light as a leaf, with structure and cast aluminium deck integrated as far as possible and swooping over the water, illuminated at night by continuous fibre optics to make a delicate luminous suture suture /su·ture/ (soo´cher) 1. sutura. 2. a stitch or series of stitches made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or traumatic wound. 3. to apply such stitches. 4. between the two halves of the severed city. |
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