(Drivebycuriosity) - My wife and I are still in London. Yesterday we took a long walk from Clerkenwell, where we are still lodging, to Canary Wharf in the east of the metropolis. This is one of the main financial centres of the United Kingdom, along with the City of London, sprinkled with fancy skycsrapers - a Manhattan on the Thames. Canary Wharf is a modern satellite city build in the 1990s on the ground of the form docks which closed in 1980 (wikipedia). Today you find there a cluster of office towers, shops, restaurants & bars around open places & canals.
I enjoyed the architecture there. Being an ambitious amateur photographer I took a lot pictures and present my favorite shots here.
Above you can see Cabot Square, a center of calmness, behind the place looms the One Canada Square Tower, the second-tallest completed building in the United Kingdom (235 meter, 771 feet), after the Shard.
Above more phallic towers.
We walked there, but you also can access the mini-city by bus, subway & light train.
I enjoyed the combination of architecture which reminds me of other gentrified harbor places like Hamburg & Düsseldorf.
Brexit or not, there is still a lot of construction.
Above the West India Import Dock, construction started 12th July 1800.
To be continued
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