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Article: SEA STRUCTURES: Water world.
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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Although 'Boris Island', London mayor Boris Johnson's proposed airport in the Thames Estuary, was scoffed at by critics, it reflects a growing trend of aiming to build on seas and oceans. Jon Excell reports
WHEN Boris Johnson first aired his suggestion that the UK's busiest airport should be relocated from Heathrow to an artificial island in the Thames Estuary the prevailing reaction was one of amusement. 'Boris Island' as it soon became known was seized on by the media as a potent symbol of the London mayor's eccentricity.
But forget the concept's arguably damaging association with Johnson, put to one side concerns over its environmental impact ...