IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week’s special news features Building Design (BD) on its archives linked to ‘The history of the construction of new London Bridge’.
Tom Lowe writes for Building:
‘The brutalist concrete structure is now relatively overlooked, lacking the visual charisma of many of the capital’s more famous bridges.
‘But the challenge of building it at its unstable downstream site, requiring the construction of 20ft wide concrete columns sunk 70ft below the riverbed, should earn it more credit.’
IHBC writes:
Lowe’s article features the archive article which charts the history of ‘London Bridge’ from its Roman origins, various replacements throughout the centuries such as the iconic 12th century stone bridge with its numerous shops, houses and a church, the 19th century version – parts of which were moved to Lake Havasu City in Arizona, USA as a result of its replacement by the present bridge which was started in 1967 and completed in 1971 (Opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973).
The article details the construction of this present bridge, the problems encountered and the solutions.
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