A BRIDGE WORTH CROSSING
May 06, 2020
3 minutes
THE idea of a Garden Bridge has been spiked and the last major Thames crossing to go up—the Millennium Bridge—got off to a shaky (quite literally) start before finally rooting itself in the public consciousness, but London has a proud heritage of finely engineered bridges. Despite lacking the antiquity of Paris’s Pont Neuf, many have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become objects of visual delight in their own right.
Ironically, given the name, that doesn’t include London Bridge, now formed from concrete and steel. In its earlier incarnations —including a series of timber bridges and the medieval stone
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