Twenty years ago, the Golden Jubilee Bridge helped transform the South Bank. Now the team who came up with that idea want to do the same for Charlton and Woolwich, connecting them with communities and transport links north of the Thames. ALEX LIFSCHUTZ of the architecture firm Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands explains why you should support […]
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Team spirit boosts life in lockdown at the Thames Barrier
Steve East has worked at the Thames Barrier for 34 years. In all his time there he’s never experienced a period quite like this. “I always tell people I started when I was 12, but that’s not quite true,” he says over the phone from his office, which overlooks the barrier. He was actually 27 […]
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If the Thames Barrier hadn’t been there last week…
In case you hadn’t seen this already, this image issued by the Environment Agency shows what could have happened to our part of London if the Thames Barrier hadn’t been raised on Thursday to deal with the biggest tide in 60 years. That’s my old house in Greenwich, right at the edge of that wave […]
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