Text and photography by Lee F. Mindel for Architectural Digest The Tower Bridge photographed from The Shard building. The London Bridge we all know from the nursery rhyme was originally a timber structure built, and subsequently rebuilt many times, by the city's Roman founders as the sole crossing over the River Thames. It was replaced in medieval times and again in the 19th century as methods of construction changed. In 1968 the John Rennie-designed masonry London Bridge, built in 1831, was dis...
Text and photography by Lee F. Mindel for Architectural Digest The Tower Bridge photographed from The Shard building. The London Bridge we all know from the nursery rhyme was originally a timber structure built, and subsequently rebuilt many times, by the city's Roman founders as the sole crossing over the River Thames. It was replaced in medieval times and again in the 19th century as methods of construction changed. In 1968 the John Rennie-designed masonry London Bridge, built in 1831, was dis...
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