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St Saviours Bridge London Photos
St Saviours Bridge London Bermondsey:
St Saviours Wharf Bermondsey London houseboats on River Thames:
St Saviours Wharf Bermondsey London properties – the white on in the distance on the West side (right of picture) is No. 22 Shad Thames by Sir Michael Hopkins, for Sir Terence Conran’s empire – Ed., I once worked on the top floor for CDP as an architect:
Hay’s Galleria tourist attraction, Jubilee Walk, on the south bank of the Thames:
Walkie Talkie Building – 20 Fenchurch St design by Rafael Vinoly Architects
29 Jun 2014
River Thames Architecture
Museum of London Docklands – Bridge Multi-media Art Exhibition
27 Jul – 2 Nov 2014
Following last year’s exhibition entitled Estuary, theMuseum of London Docklands is following up its interest in the water and the city of London by launching its multi-media art exhibition, Bridge. The press event took place on the warm and hazy morning of 19 June aboard the Cyclone Clipper, which took its passengers first upriver from London Bridge City Pier to Vauxhall and back downriver to Tower Pier where the event terminated.
River Thames Buildings
London Riverside Architecture News arranged chronologically:
Blackfriars Railway Bridge
Date built: 1886
photo © Adrian Welch
Blackfriars Railway Bridge
As part of the Thameslink Programme, the platforms at Blackfriars station were extended across the Thames and partially supported by the 1864 bridge piers. The project was designed by Jacobs and Tony Gee & Partners. The bridge has the first train platform on the River Thames. It also has a roof covered with photovoltiac solar panels – the largest of only two solar bridges in the world (the other being Kurilpa Bridge in Australia). Other green improvements include sun pipes and systems to collect rain water.
River Thames buildings, looking east along the south bank towards Tower Bridge:
photo © Adrian Welch
11 Mar 2013
Broken Wharf House, City of London, England
Design: Avery Associates Architects + Sidell Gibson Architects
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Broken Wharf House London
Avery Associates, working in association with Sidell Gibson Architects recently received planning permission for a prestigious residential redevelopment for the Hermes Property Unit Trust at Broken Wharf in the City of London.
20 Fenchurch St Building – new photos, 12 Nov 2012
photo © Adrian Welch
Walkie Talkie Building
Fishmongers’ Hall
photo © Adrian Welch
St Olaf House, Tooley Street – aka Hays Wharf Building
Date built: 1932
Design: H S Goodhart-Rendel architect
– for the Hays Wharf Company
– was offices and warehousing
– Art Deco facade includes turrets and angled walls.
– building named after the Viking chieftain Olaf Haraldsson (St. Olaf) who attacked London by river in 1009 and tore down London Bridge.
– built on the site of St Olave’s church which had occupied the site from the 11th century, was rebuilt in 1740 and finally demolished around 1926.
Hay’s Galleria
– major riverside tourist attraction on the Jubilee Walk is situated on the south bank of the River Thames. Originally a warehouse and associated wharf (Hay’s Wharf) for the port of London, it was redeveloped as a visitor attraction in the 1980s.
– during the nineteenth century, the wharf was one of the chief delivery points for ships bringing tea to the Pool of London. At its height, 80% of the dry produce imported to London passed through the wharf, and on this account the Wharf was nicknamed ‘the Larder of London
– redevelopment by Twigg Brown Architects
– permanently closing the dock gates, covering the dock with a floor
– enclosing the entire space with a roof, reminiscent of the Victorian railway termini of the same period, to create the galleria
– Grade II listed
– in a fountain at the centre of the Galleria is a 60 ft moving bronze sculpture of a ship
Sea Container Building & Oxo Tower
photograph © Nick Weall
St Georges Wharf, Vauxhall Bridge
photograph © Nick Weall
Daily Express Building
photograph © Nick Weall
Globe Theatre
photograph © Nick Weall
South Bank Centre
South Bank Centre London : photographs © Adrian Welch, May 2007
Photographs below all copyright Adrian Welch:
GLA Building
Design: Foster & Partners
More London
Design: Foster & Partners
Millennium Dome
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership – since re-titled as RSHP
Photos of various buildings
River Thames building : Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel
Location: London, England, UK
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