Lloyd Alter @treehugger picked up the RIBI/Woshipful CCA design competition winner for new ideas to shake up London Bridge. The winning design includes vertical farming, solar heating, vertical axis turbines, gray water recycling and a few other notably disruptive technologies. Here’s the story:
London Bridge isn’t falling down, it is just really boring. It used to be an exciting place, an inhabited bridge full of shops and taverns, but they got rid of all that centuries ago and then shipped the thing off to Lake Havasu in Arizona. But the idea of London Bridge is 800 years old this week, and the Royal Institute of British Architects and the wonderfully named Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects ran an architectural competition to design a new inhabited bridge.
The judges wrote:
A beautifully presented scheme, wildly imaginative yet very thoroughly considered, both in terms of its construction but also how it could sit within the wider context. The design refers to the surrounding buildings, using them as reference points and inspiration behind the form. It is also full of interesting ecological ideas and on all levels seems to work well. This was a unanimous first choice amongst the panel.
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