Exhibition: The Future of the Thames

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The first in the series of exhibitions to accompany the London in the 21^st Century debates featured a selection of key schemes that would affect the future of the Thames and the capital's central metropolitan district.

Theses schemes included plans for a cable car over the Thames from Covent Garden to the Royal Festival Hall, an inhabited bridge with shops, cafes and bars between St. Paul’s and the then in-construction Tate Modern, a temporary home for the Royal Opera House next to Tower Bridge, improvements to Hungerford footbridge, and a range of imaginative landscaping ideas for improving public areas in front of Waterloo Station and along the Thames embankments.