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St Saviours Bridge London Photos

St Saviours Bridge London Bermondsey:
St Saviours Bridge London Bermondsey

St Saviours Wharf Bermondsey London houseboats on River Thames:
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:
St Saviours Wharf Bermondsey London

Hay’s Galleria tourist attraction, Jubilee Walk, on the south bank of the Thames:
Hay's Galleria London visitor attraction

Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge London boats

The Shard tower
The Shard London skyscraper building

Walkie Talkie Building – 20 Fenchurch St design by Rafael Vinoly Architects
Sky Garden London building

GLA Building
GLA City Hall Building London

Shad Thames buildings
Shad Thames London bridges buildings

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.

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London Riverside Architecture News arranged chronologically:

Blackfriars Railway Bridge
Date built: 1886
Blackfriars Bridge London
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:
River Thames buildings
photo © Adrian Welch

11 Mar 2013
Broken Wharf House, City of London, England
Design: Avery Associates Architects + Sidell Gibson Architects
Broken Wharf House London
image from architects
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
City of London buildings
photo © Adrian Welch
Walkie Talkie Building

Fishmongers’ Hall
Fishmongers Hall
photo © Adrian Welch

St Olaf House, Tooley Street – aka Hays Wharf Building
Date built: 1932
Design: H S Goodhart-Rendel architect
Hays Wharf Building

– 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
Hays Galleria Hays Galleria Hays 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
Sea Container Building
photograph © Nick Weall

St Georges Wharf, Vauxhall Bridge
St Georges Wharf
photograph © Nick Weall

Daily Express Building
Daily Express Building
photograph © Nick Weall

Globe Theatre
Globe Theatre
photograph © Nick Weall

South Bank Centre
South Bank Centre South Bank Centre
South Bank Centre London : photographs © Adrian Welch, May 2007

Photographs below all copyright Adrian Welch:

Wobbly bridge
Wobbly bridge

South Bank Centre
South Bank Centre

London Eye
London Eye

Hungerford Pedestrian Bridge
Hungerford Pedestrian Bridge

Oxo Tower
Oxo Tower

Big Ben
Big Ben

Portcullis House
Portcullis House

Adelaide House
Adelaide House

Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge

Bermondsey buildings
Bermondsey buildings

Shad Thames buildings
Shad Thames buildings

GLA Building
Design: Foster & Partners
GLA Building

More London
Design: Foster & Partners
More London

Millennium Dome
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership – sicne re-titled as RSHP
Millennium Dome

Photos of various buildings
Hays Galleria Hays Galleria Hays Galleria context Hays Galleria context

Hays Galleria context Hays Galleria context Hays Galleria context Hays Galleria context

Hays Galleria context Hays Galleria context Hays Galleria context

River Thames building : Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel

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South Bank Centre Photographs taken with Panasonic DMC-FX01 lumix camera;
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