Passing the old Alexandra Bridge yesterday in glorious wintry sunshine, I had to stop and take a picture. Especially when my companion informed me that the ICA had once contemplated relocating here in the mid-1990s. Apparently Will Alsop wanted to build on top of the disused red pillars.
Does anyone know of what came of this idea?
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Charles Dickens was certainly no fan of Joseph Cubitt’s 1864 construction:
Alexandra Bridge is a hideous iron structure put together by the L. C. and D. R. [London, Chatham and Dover Railway ] Company to carry their line to Ludgate-hiIl and the Holborn-viaduct. It consists of long lines of gigantic lattice – work girders, inside of which the trains run, and which rest on rows of naked round iron cylinders.
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens’s Dictionary of London, 1879