Canary Wharf this afternoon

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.

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.

Missed this one off!