Which architect would be best suited to design Boris Johnson's proposed Channel bridge?

2018-01-22T14:20:00-05:00

The clown king of novelty infrastructure fantasies has once again stolen the limelight with his preposterous plan for a 22-mile bridge across the Channel. [...] But none of this matters. In a world where Johnson got as far as flushing £37m of public money into the Thames on another fantasy project, the Garden Bridge, a great Channel crossing could easily be conjured into being.

The Guardian's architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, responds to the former London Mayor's suggestion to build a 22-mile bridge across the Channel and physically connect the European Union with the brexiting island kingdom (on top of the already existing 31.35-mile Channel tunnel).

Let's just say, Wainwright isn't a fan and pens an angry roundup of prominent architects that either have designed other Johnson mega-visions, like Heatherwick's Thames Garden Bridge and Lord Foster's Thames Hub, or have a history of going over the initially proposed project budget a tad or a thousand.

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Which architect would be best suited to design Boris Johnson's proposed Channel bridge?