These two towers – one in Millwall Park and one by the General Wolfe statue in Greenwich Park – have been erected so that a cable can be threaded between them, allowing a TV camera to swoop across the river, past the ORNC and then above the equestrian events for London 2012.
Cranes will also be positioned by John Roan School and opposite the Blackheath Tea Hut for another cable camera.
(Thanks Gary for pointing out that the tower on the Isle of Dogs is in Millwall Park, not Island Gardens)
Making full use of the landscape? Tick.
What a fantastic camera shot that will be.
Now, about that jet stream…..
So the ripples of the LOCOG Greenwich Equestrian events have now knocked out a large percentage of another park (the tower is huge and held up with a very large truss spread across a lot of square metre-age with a pretty big and ugly partition across the public space. Which agency allowed this? All for pretty pictures of the river. Great!