"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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I'm baffled by the bridge over Raphael Street by Knightbridge Green. It only
carries a single storey, and doesn't allow walking through to another
building (this is not obvious in the photos, but the building to the north
of the bridge has since been demolished, and the bridge clearly leads
nowhere). I don't really know what's in it, but surely the same floorspace
could have been created a lot more cheaply.


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...04.81,,0,-14.8




From that, it's not so much a bridge more a set of offices built over a roadway.
The choice presumably was to have just the roadway, or entrance, granting
access to whatever was behind left as it was. Or sling a platform across the
roadway and build something on top of the platform. More than one story would
probably have been impossible for technical/cost or planning reasons. As to
where you'd get cheaper floorspace in Knightsbridge - maybe suspended from a
balloon 100ft up but that would be about it.


michael adams

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On 23 July, 15:20, "michael adams" wrote:
From that, it's not so much a bridge more a set of offices built over a roadway.
The choice presumably was to have just the roadway, or entrance, granting
access to whatever was behind left as it was. Or sling a platform across the
roadway and build something on top of the platform. More than one story would
probably have been impossible for technical/cost or planning reasons. As to
where you'd get cheaper floorspace in Knightsbridge - maybe suspended from a
balloon 100ft up but that would be about it.

This ignore that the building is part of a huge high-ish rise
development that covers the whole block. My guess is it was done for
aesthetic reasons to make it fit into the streetscape a bit better -
it's the kind of thing that planning committees routinely request.

U