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Pop-up garden along the Thames
Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 at 11:20am

The Design Museum has opened a pop-up garden in 'The Tank' outside the museum along the Thames. The garden is a joint venture with Swiss design company Vitra.The garden, with its overgrow grass, features designs from some of the biggest names such as Charles and Ray Eames, Jasper Morrison, Jay Osgerby and Verner Panton. It also provides a space for visitors to sit and enjoy the area and sights.
All the pieces featured are also on sale at the museum shop or online here.Tagged Design, furniture, pop up, Thames, Design Museum, Vitra
New Cable Cars to Cross the Thames, By Mace Group
Tuesday, 19th April 2011 at 5:22am
50-millimetre steel cables will be stretched over one kilometre across the Thames. Reaching from the Greenwich Peninsula at The O2 up to the Royal Docks at ExCeL, the 34 cars involved will do the hourly work of 40 buses. No wonder that Mark Reynolds, Mace's deputy chief executive, called it "an incredibly exciting new river crossing for London". Transport for London has approved, and the £40 million project could well be up and running for next summer's 2012 Olympic Games.
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Tagged alternative transportation, Architecture, cable car, green architecture, Greenwich, London, London cable car, Mace Group, Thames, The O2, Wilkinson Eyre

