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Buildings and monuments :
Canada Square (the centrepiece of Canary Wharf )
Canada Square is the tallest building in London . Identifiable from a great distance as a pencil shaped tower with a flashing light on top (for aircraft), this building is a monument to 1980s style capitalism.
At 235 metres (771 ft) and 50 stories, it is the tallest habitable building in the United Kingdom (although the 330 metre tall Emley Moor television tower near Huddersfield is a taller structure). In 1990, it surpassed Tower 42 (183m / 600ft) to become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom
30 St Mary Axe (Home of Swiss Re, and also known as "The Gherkin" or even the "Erotic Gherkin")
30 St Mary Axe is a building in the City of London, London, United Kingdom. It is informally known as "The Gherkin", and sometimes as The Swiss Re Tower, Swiss Re Building or Swiss Re Centre, after its owner and principal occupier. It is 590 ft (180 m) tall. The building is famous for its daring architecture by Pritzker-prize winner, Sir Norman Foster.
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Albert Memorial
The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens, London, England, directly to the north of the Royal Albert Hall.It was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who died of typhoid in 1861, and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style. |
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Opened in 1872, with the statue of Albert ceremonially "seated" in 1875, the memorial consists of an ornate pavilion containing a statue of Prince Albert facing south. This is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus, which depicts 169 individual composers, architects, poets, painters, and sculptors. There are two allegorical sculpture programs: four groups depicting Victorian industrial arts and sciences (agriculture, commerce, engineering and manufacturing), and four more groups representing Europe, Asia, Africa and The Americas at the four corners, each continent-group including several ethnographic figures and a large animal. The sculptor Henry Hugh Armstead coordinated this massive effort among several arists of the Royal Academy, including Hamo Thornycroft.
Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace was built on a hill in Muswell Hill in North London in 1873 as a public entertainment centre. It is now a conference centre operated by a charitable trust. It was nicknamed "The People's Palace" or "Ally Pally", and in 1936 became the headquarters of world's first regular public "high definition" television service, operated by the BBC. The Alexandra Palace Transmitter is located on the site and still broadcasts television and radio signals. |
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Bank of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, sometimes known as "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" or "The Old Lady". |
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Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station, completed in 1939, was the first in a series of very large (for the era) coal-fired electrical generating facilities set up in England as part of the National Grid power distribution system then being introduced. It is a grade II listed building, and is being converted to a large commercial and entertainment complex as the centrepiece of a project to rejuvenate the surrounding area. |
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British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the world's most significant research libraries, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year. The library includes copies of the majority of the books found in the Library of Congress (but not the other media and manuscripts), along with a substantial additional collection of international items and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. As of March 2004 the library holds 11.2 million monographs and receives more than 41,500 regular serials. The library receives copies of all books produced in the UK , including all books from abroad which are reprinted in the UK , and many items which are only printed abroad |
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