Garden Bridge Design Team
The simple rustic design of this japanese bridge invokes the image of a wagon wheel.
Garden bridge design team. Over many months the mayor attempted to conceal who attended the. Following transport for london s tfl tender for proposals to improve pedestrian links across the river heatherwick studio and actor and campaigner joanna lumley have developed an idea for a new pedestrian garden bridge across the river thames. Arup s multidisciplinary team worked closely with a range of sub consultants including heatherwick studio over a four year period to.
Originally an idea of actor joanna lumley and strongly supported by mayor of london boris johnson thomas heatherwick worked with arup on a proposal by transport for london tfl for a new bridge across the thames between waterloo and blackfriars bridges. The bridge crosses a man made pebble bottom stream. Many of these garden bridges span an algae filled pond and this one is no different.
The 366m garden bridge was designed as a new piece of infrastructure spanning the river thames. A single red railing stretches on one side of this simple wooden bridge. This included taking a taxpayer funded trip to san francisco in order to drum up funding for the project.
A scheme to connect north and south london with a garden. Chair of tfl and his team met five times with thomas heatherwick to discuss the concept of a garden bridge prior to the procurement process beginning.