Let's take a short walk around Canary Wharf

Citigroup HQ (25 Canada Square)
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Corner of HSBC (8 Canada Square)
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A little close-up
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In case somebody wishes to have some rest
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1 Churchill Place
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Viewing up (8 Canada Square)
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Street level
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The footbridge
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1 Canada Square
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1 Churchill Place
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The footbridge once more
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25 Canada Square
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1 Canada Square
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DLR train passing
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Approaching the tube station
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Time to say goodbye, I'll miss CW for the whole next week or even more :wave:
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nice pics. what kind of camera is that by the way?


oh yeah, are the people in london or europe in general not use to skyscrapers? beceuse i hear of a lot about canary wharf on this forum, i think the other side of london is a better eye candy in my opinion. c.w. does not even look like london.

Canary Warf has some top modern architecture, but from those pictures, the place looks empty! Everything is clean too.

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Indeed, it wasn't crowded, it still needs more liveliness to be brought in but I still love it. :)
As for the architecture and planning it's simply amazing, that's the way massive modern developments should be happening in this century.

Canary Wharf is pretty close to London City Airport. Is there any height limit placed on the buildings at Canary Wharf because of this relatively lightly used airport?

texasboy, skyscrapers are not the norm, the urban landscape has always concerned the very detailed ground experience of the individual, and in Europe its usually a dense exeprience so from purely an individual scale a skyline can make little difference.

Obviously this has been seen not to be the case, especially when you have a huge river running through the city offering wonderful vantage points.

But the idea that this doesnt look like London may seem true, but in essence London is a collection of individual towns and villages, each area with its very own character. Most of the obvious tourist stuff is in Westminster, but that is very different from The City, Camden, Southwark, Whitechapel, Hampstead, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, Whitechapel, Islintgton, Shoreditch......etc

Canary Wharf is one of those towns and villages, well a city, that is now very much apart of teh diverse fabric that is London.

Rapid, it is very busy during business hours, but they are yet to explode the residential section so its all strictly business and cafes and bars for those business people. But there is much more to come.

Nick, there is a height limit. The arabs behind the New Columbus tower set for construction threatened to buy the airport if they objected to their building. I am unsure about the details of teh restriction though.

Superb captures!!!

:eek2: I still can't believe someone yelled at me once when I said how much I love Canary Wharf.

This is City Airport.

The height limit at Canary Wharf is approximately 240m. Hopefully some organisation or somebody will buy the airport at some point in the future, close it down, and allow the Docklands to build skyscrapers up to 300m and beyond. Probably just wishful thinking though. :)



http://www.willfox.com/images/skyscrapers/cityairport.jpg

Nice, I'd like to see more at ground level though...

Stu

wow, i LOVE the pictures. some of them look almost surreal. very clean looking buildings, square and uniform, but i really like them. you captured their forms nicely. what kind of camera is it? i'm guessing DSLR

Great pics! I love the buildings CW has. Definately one of Europe's skyscraper captials (if not THE capital). I can't begin to imagine how huge it will be in 20 yrs time, esp considering London's unrivaled financial strength.

wow, i LOVE the pictures. some of them look almost surreal. very clean looking buildings, square and uniform, but i really like them. you captured their forms nicely. what kind of camera is it? i'm guessing DSLR

Thanks :D
My cam is not even close to any kind of SLR, just an ordinary old 2Mpixel Canon, though I'll sure get a better one as I'll have $ to finance this :)

really nice

There are plans to expand London City Airport.

i see reuters, my mom works there lol

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Missed this one off!

GREAT pics! u've inspired me to go to Canary Wharf tomoz just to take pics :D

i love the cluster around Canary Wharf..

"expand expand expand" is what i say! its got the pretty much ONLY decent skyline in Greater London,.. The City's skyline's full of architectural freaks; DO NOT even mention Bromley and Croydon's skyline, coz they should really be Kent and Surrey's, Harrow's skyline's proabably makin Chairman Mao a very happy man in Commie Heaven too! :crazy: ARRGHHH! NO DECENT SKYLINES EXCEPT THIS ONE! we need more of the Canary Wharf cluster: MORE!!! :D:D:D

Some stunning photos here, particularly good for a 2 megapixel camera :)

http://www.willfox.com/images/skyscrapers/cityairport.jpg

gotta love that pic. Class :)

Absolutely stunning!!

Thanks John for these nice pics! How i miss London!! I have been many times in Canary Wharf. :wave:

I like La Défense more. Beter expension possibilities, better name ,better location, nicer skysrapers (except Defense 2000) ,...

:sleepy: but what do u think of the photographs?

I love airports. I think having an airport near downtown is an interesting concept. But, when you have as many flight choices besides London City Airport, and it starts infringing on building heights then I'd have to say that it was a good idea but it just doesn't fit in with the big plan. Shut LCY down, even with the bigger aircraft it may soon start handling.

I live really close to CW, and these great pictures really make me appreciate it. There are so many nice glass and steel skyscrapers and some faux-historic looking buildings too. Love the water too!

4 months later ;)

I like La Défense more. Beter expension possibilities, better name ,better location, nicer skysrapers (except Defense 2000) ,...Canary Wharf has much much better expansion possibilities, a much higher average building qaulity, much nicer public spaces, a better name, and a better location surrounded by water. La Défense is ridiculously overrated on these forums. People really need to go there and see how tacky many of the buldings are (that hideous green thing with white dots on the main square for example?) and the weeds growing up through the badly dated 60s-modernist cracked paving slabs.

nice walk in CW

Thanks for the pics; I love Canary Wharf too. Can't wait to get back to the UK and take some new pics now! The reason it doesn't look like London is because it's all so new. Yes, the street scenes are very sterile: long clean glass office facades. It does have a buzz all of it's own though. I think part of the reason we love it so much is because it IS so new and different. Not that we don't love the old, quaint and historical buildings too, but Canary Wharf is a different kind of grand.

4 months later ;)

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