Tuesday 31 July 2018

London 2012 / view from Orbit Tower

[from the archives of 2012]
View south from the viewing platform of the Orbit Tower towards the Canary Wharf financial district. Buildings include...

  • (left) 1 Churchill Place (HOK, 2005), the HQ of Barclays Bank, ex-office of Bob Diamond. 
  • (centre) HSBC Tower - Foster & Partners, 2002.
  • (right) One Canada Square - Cesar Pelli & Associates, 1991.

The Orbit Tower stands in the London 2012 Olympic Park in the London Borough of Newham, and is about 3.7km from 1 Canada Square which is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
(CC BY-SA - credit: Images George Rex.)