City Hall | London, United Kingdom

[Monkey]

City Hall (GLA Building)
Southwark, London

Height: 45m
Floors: 10
Built: 2000-2002
Architect: Foster and Partners
Developer: More London Development Ltd

Links:
http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/city_hall/index.jsp
Skyscrapers.com listing


Notes:
- City Hall is home to the Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the GLA, who in July 2002 became tenants of this striking rounded glass building on the south bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge. Members of the public may visit parts of City Hall, Monday to Friday from 8am to 8pm and on occasional weekends.

- The top storey is referred to as 'London's living room' and leads out onto a balcony providing a 360˚ panorama of the city.

- The interior's spiral walkway is similar to that of Berlin's Reichstagsgebäude.

- The building comprises public facilities, committee rooms and a meeting chamber which can accommodate up to 250 members of the public.

- Directly to the west lies an amphitheatre fashioned from limestone owned by More London which, as a public venue, can accommodate up to 1,000 people and is known as 'the Scoop'.

- The building has been nicknamed the 'Glass Testicle'.

[Zaqattaq]

'Glass Testicle' to go along with the other thing

[Monkey]

8/10

An eye-catching landmark with a striking design, in a very prominent location. Unfortunately the cladding is of a very low quality (especially compared to the renderings shown before it was built...)

[Matthieu]

Glass testicle is a deserved name IMO.

[Monkey]

Hehe

[Zenith]

An eye-catching landmark with a striking design, in a very prominent location. Unfortunately the cladding is of a very low quality (especially compared to the renderings shown before it was built...)

unforgivable cladding im afraid....trust us brits to shoot ourselves in the foot with that..

I was quite excited to see it, unfortunatley from its cladding it looked like it was built in the 1960's, and apart from its shape and modern interior it could have been...well you get my meaning.

Its scale is also totally wrong...should be more dominant, prouder..

[Phobos]

Originally Posted by Exarchus

Glass testicle is a deserved name IMO.

Surely is,and there is also the blue dick in the city

[sdes]

I'll give it 9/10, very cool

[DamienK]

Looks like a snail. 8/10

[Monkey]

Thanks to John for this pic

[John]

I like it a lot actually, the only thing which disturbs me is the cladding, it looks somewhat "low quality" (although I doubt it is so) as for such a design and architect who created it. Anyway it's a deserved 9.

[Sitback]

I love this picture. Such a nice place to be in the summer.

[John]

Yeah, those fountains are cool, too bad it's winter now, I wouldn't miss a chance to get all wet in there

[Raine]

8/10

[Ellatur]

nice 10

[SkylineTurbo]

9.5, I do like it, the cladding is a slight hiccup off.

[tritown]

8. I think the main drawback is that it doesn't complement the surroundoing architecture. As I've been around London, a lot of it is quite eclectic. I wish the modern would have a better relationship with the classic. That's how I see it.

[SkylineTurbo]

Looks like something from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.

[tritown]

How so???? He doesn't mention anything like that in the book.

[Philip Cronin]

Horrible, just horrible. An embarrassment for London. 3.5 but deserves less.