Marble Arch

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Walk taken by Steve, Michael, Peter and Helen on 16th November

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The ladder was a bit short for the locale. The buildings were so tall and so densely packed that the GPS did not work. We started the walk at Edgware Road Station			Solarisation was a help on a dull day
Crane reflection	Blue tunnel/bridge	Through the Tunnel
M & S where we had coffee		Narrow boats and the GPS is working
The Rolling Bridge We did not wait to see the bridge curl. but we should have done...	Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design a pedestrian bridge to span an inlet of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London, and provide an access route for workers and residents. Crucially, the bridge needed to open to allow access for the boats moored in the inlet. The aim was to make the movement the extraordinary aspect of the bridge. A common approach to designing opening bridges is to have a single rigid element that fractures and lifts out of the way. Rolling Bridge opens by slowly and smoothly curling until it transforms from a conventional, straight bridge, into a circular sculpture which sits on the bank of the canal. The structure opens using a series of hydraulic rams integrated into the balustrade. As it curls, each of its eight segments simultaneously lifts, causing it to roll until the two ends touch and form a circle. The bridge can be stopped at any point along its journey. The whole structure was constructed at Littlehampton Welding on the Sussex coast and then floated up the Grand Union Canal, before being lifted into position and attached to the hydraulic system which powers its movement. The Rolling Bridge won a number of awards including a Structural Steel Award, and an Emerging Architecture Award.
Chateau Magdelaine a St. Emilion, but was it an empty box?	This enlarges a lot	Egyptian geese	Reflections
		Michael kept advancing upon the Egyptian Geese, but they held their ground honking/growling warningly.	Reinforced entrance
Patterns on the bridge	Painting unit	I did improve the sky to match the narrow boat	Narrow boat
GWR Paddington Station	Rubbish	Paddington Tube Station	Office staircase
Reflections	Reflections in Art	Portrait of Michael	Paddington Station from the bridge
Men at Work	Regent's Canal - on the right a similar picture taken year's ago with a different treatment		Footbridge over the canal
Hydraulic buffers	Paddington Station Ironwork	Paddington roof	Edgware Rd Café
Portman	Perfume	Art	At the Hairdressers
Marble Arch	St George on Marble Arch	All shopped out	Horse's Head
		Genghis Khan
The 16ft tall (5m) statue captures the legendary leader wearing Mongolian armour on his steed. The sculpture by artist Dashi Namdakov will stand next to Cumberland Gate until early September. The artist, who had an interest in the nomadic tribes of Mongolia, wanted to honour the warrior on the 850th anniversary of his birth. He said: "If I wanted to show him as a warrior I would have shown him as a warrior, but he is a thinker in this case. He is a divine figure in my country." Namdakov was born in a Siberian village and brought up in the Buryat Buddhist culture.
Just as we decided to go home, the rain started; it's good to be lucky