The Thames Estuary – London’s wild side
One of the London Festival of Architecture’s most interesting exhibitions is a show at Southwark gallery, charting the unvisited reaches of the Thames Estuary.
As you head out of London along the Thames, the glitzy office blocks and shiny residential developments disappear. Instead, there are sheds, warehouses, the strange concrete shapes of water towers, chimneys, power stations and cargo terminals. And mile upon mile of gloomy marshland.
It’s a landscape that looks its best with grey skies – moody and unloved. A landscape where history has come and gone, leaving only stumps of old forts in its wake.
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