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Edwin Heathcote questions newly approved, privately run landmark

Billed as London’s answer to New York’s High Line, the Garden Bridge has been presented as a new public park spanning the Thames, an opportunity to stop and take in the views, free of traffic and framed by trees. What could possibly be wrong with that?

Almost everything, it turns out. The extravagant, organic design by Thomas Heatherwick topped off by a canopy of green is eye-catching. But what is it for? It links Temple on the north side of the river with the South Bank, two areas which do not particularly need linking. It is being proposed as a public park – but is it?....Continue Reading

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