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What London could have looked like?
#1
Posted 04 September 2020 - 06:59 PM

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#2
Posted 06 September 2020 - 07:46 PM

The Crystal Palace would have been nice, but I think London was better off without the rest.
#3
Posted 07 September 2020 - 03:01 PM

Interesting. The pyramid in Trafalgar Square is quite nice, and the Crystal Palace tower would have been cool.
However, I prefer Regent Street as it is now.
And the runway idea in the Thames is crazy. Just imagine the noise and air pollution.
#4
Posted 08 September 2020 - 07:33 AM

I like this kind of London. I would love to visit it
#5
Posted 11 October 2020 - 07:21 PM

That pyramid definitely does not work for London. The rest of these proposals do look pretty nice, though.
#6
Posted 02 March 2021 - 12:06 AM

The problem with these projects is that they would disturbe the history and style of London.
- Monorails look cool and work great in modern sci-fi cities, but in London traditional buses and the Underground are much more appropriate.
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The runway in Thames looks awful completing altering the landscape and there's no point to build one when you have high-speed rail inside London.
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Crystal Palace glass skyscraper; I think the park looks better as it is today. Skyscrapers should be restricted in the specified areas.
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Trafalgar Pyramid would have been fine had it been constructed in early 19th century to commemorate British victories.
#7
Posted 02 March 2021 - 11:08 AM

The problem with these projects is that they would disturbe the history and style of London.
- Monorails look cool and work great in modern sci-fi cities, but in London traditional buses and the Underground are much more appropriate.
Not every part of London is the same, though.
The Docklands are very modern, for example. I could see it working somewhere around there. And the Docklands already has the DLR which looks kind of like a monorail.
But yeah, the central areas should be kept as buses/tube.
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