Evening Standard - London, October 10th, 2000
If the Thames is the capital's most underused asset, why are its banks lined with crass, gimmicky apartment blocks? THERE'S nothing like the Thames for giving architects, planners and politicians a fit of moist-eyed, catch-in-the-throat piety; they call it the "heart of London", or "London's most underused asset". And the river is indeed romantic, a magnificent natural force, the object of a grand urban love affair without which the life of the hardheaded, land-based part of the city would not be worth living. Yet it is a place where rhetoric and reality are uniquely mismatched. If there are...
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