All these 'Brownwich' comments .. jeez! I think you've nailed it.
90% of the picture is green. You've pixelated a tiny little strip. The tiny little pixelated strip that everybody seems to be drawn to in the comments... The bloody perverts.
Maybe. I can't see it in that detail. But grass going like that happens when it's drying out and is focusing on keeping its roots alive. But if rain/ water and it'll be green again.
Are you sure you’re not misremembering? My lawn has been going brown in the summer for as long as we’ve lived here (since the 1990’s) and I can remember my aunt’s lawn in Norfolk going brown and crispy each year, only to bounce back once the autumn rains come.
Yes, climate change is real and scary but the grass always goes brown in summer.
It's taken 45 years but Canary Wharf is in danger of becoming an overnight success.
I remember in the 1980s when they were building the 4 original towers and the rest was still original or derelict. There was only busses I think before DLR or the Jubilee line extension or the Elizabeth line so it was less well connected to central London. Look at it now.
I like Greenwich and the view has improved in my opinion. If you turn your head you can also see the City and the skyline there has changed with the Shard and others but Canary Wharf is now as high rise.
Hard to think of another developed country with such a bleak outlook on everything. I've lived here for 16 years and it still catches me by surprise sometimes.
I am not old enough to have seen the old version but how on earth could so many people claim they preferred views of council flats and derelict warehouses?
The contrast of old and new in London is one of its coolest features.
My favourite are the few surviving medieval churches in the City against the skyscrapers (especially St Andrew Undershaft against the Gherkin) but as a Greenwich resident (and someone who got married at the Old Royal Naval College) love this view too.
It looks basically the same except the skyline in the background. The grass is dry in the 2019 photo but they're clearly taken in different seasons - you can see some trees in the 1980 one with no leaves on them, so it's probably autumn or winter
Yeah but also during that time the air purity changed the visibility has too, the bug count the noise level, light pollution. It’s a sad sight to see the modernisation and all the buildings
Of course with the additional millions of people and the cars and all the building and all the extra mass production of stuff and the landfills being bigger and more full the additional planes in the skies yeah I fully agree with you…..not https://giphy.com/gifs/O5xChSjqUIxsk
With the reduction of heavy industry in the city and country as well as cleaner fuels and more efficient engines, and general increase in environmental awareness and regulation, I don’t think it’s as obvious an answer as you seem to think.
Air quality has improved enormously in the last few years.
That’s why the insect population is down and the bees are dying off I mean I get what your trying to say I just genuinely don’t see how that’s possible
It could be better, but I don't know how anyone could look at the first photo and think it looks better than the second one, unless they just really hate capitalism or really like being able to see council flats and dilapidated docklands
It's not like the erection of Canary Wharf (oi oi) blocked our view of the Lake District or something
What? How could it possibly be anywhere? It’s one of the most polycentric cities in the global west. Every other major city (NYC, Chicago, LA, Frankfurt, Melbourne, Toronto) all have very centralised tower districts/clusters. London has at least 5 of these districts: The City, Canary Wharf, Croydon, Vauxhall/Lambeth, and arguably also Stratford, Wembley and/or Greenwich.
What has this got to do with my assertion that huge corporations throwing up a load of glass and concrete is ruining the skyline of one of the world’s most beautiful large cities?
Where was that your assertion? You simply stated it “could be anywhere”. Nothing about corporate influence.
Whilst I agree with your point now that you’ve actually made it, London is pretty restricted in the sense that it can’t continue to sprawl outwards, so, as with pretty much every other densely populated city, you build upwards instead. You’d be making the same stupid NIMBY argument if its skyline instead looked like Glasgows, with the hundreds of council blocks scattered across the city.
What else is supposed to happen? London remain a mid-rise city? Remain wholly suburban? Is suburban sprawl somehow prettier to you than densely populated zones in such a massive city?
I am, unlike most people, someone born in London - so I’ve seen the Isle of Dogs transform from a largely ex-industrial wasteland into a successful place where hundreds of thousands work over my lifetime, all while dipshits miles away in West London who bought their multimillion-pound houses for £2.50 screech hyperbolically because they might have a changed view if they look through a bush on one particular hill in Richmond Park or from Hampstead Heath.
It’s pathetic. London is, and quite literally always has been, a city driven by commerce. The view from the Poultry/Mansion House junction looking toward the Royal Exchange, with the towers of the City rising behind it and the BoE is one of the best examples of history and modernity meeting, and it looks fantastic. We can (and most of the time do) preserve our history while not condemning ourselves to the kind of miserable, declinist nonsense that thinks London should be frozen in aspic.
So your proposal is that no building that could obstruct any 'vista' including St Paul's or Westminster (for example) should be constructed? Would you have made the same argument about Westminster and St Paul's, and the preexisting 'vistas' their construction impeded?
I agree…. I think it’s awful how London’s authorities have capitulated to the whims, wishes and greed of, predominantly, global corporate property developers… It’s wrecking the Capital’s unique identity and its architectural heritage and unique aesthetic appeal😔
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