{"id":10275,"date":"2013-12-11T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T10:20:31","slug":"hermitage-wharf-joseph-conrad-norman-foster-and-the-river-thames-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/hermitage-wharf-joseph-conrad-norman-foster-and-the-river-thames-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermitage Wharf, Joseph Conrad, Norman Foster and the River Thames Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage_wharf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage_wharf.jpg\" alt=\"hermitage_wharf\" width=\"775\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage_wharf.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage_wharf-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage_wharf-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage_wharf-624x329.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe above photograph from Tower Bridge was taken yesterday on my way to the cycle petition hand-in. It struck me as a real Joseph Conrad view of the river and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/landscape_architecture\/london_landscape_architecture\/visitors_guide\/hermitage_riverside_memorial_garden\">Andrew Cowan Architects design for Hermitage Wharf<\/a> looks much better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/lord-norman-fosters-thames-side-boom-boxes\/\">Foster&#8217;s design for Albion Riverside<\/a>. Then I remembered having written a critical comment on Hermitage Wharf a few years ago. Checking it, I was pleased to find that I had praised the architecture and that it was the wretchedly dull riverside space I had criticised. Maybe Tower Hamlets&#8217; planners mandated a bad landscape design because of the South Bank type crowds they were anticipating?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage-wharf1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage-wharf1.jpg\" alt=\"hermitage-wharf1\" width=\"775\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage-wharf1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage-wharf1-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage-wharf1-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hermitage-wharf1-624x175.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above photograph from Tower Bridge was taken yesterday on my way to the cycle petition hand-in. It struck me as a real Joseph Conrad view of the river and Andrew Cowan Architects design for Hermitage Wharf looks much better than Foster&#8217;s design for Albion Riverside. Then I remembered having written a critical comment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}