Saturday 7 May 2022

More City towers


The skyline of London has altered dramatically in the past twent years or so. Tall towers have proliferated initially in two main areas - Canary Wharf and The City. In both cases what began in a modest and relatively unintrusive manner has gone mad and now towers rise next to each other with no apparent thought given to the appearance of the clustering of these glass and concrete monsters. The Shard seems to be the catalyst for more towers south of the river, and St George's Wharf and Battersea Power Station are magnets for towers in the west of central London. One of the South Bank viewpoints for The City is a specially constructed spot at New Globe Wharf by Bankside Pier. I took this photograph of some tourists enjoying (?) the view.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2