River Thames near Blackfriars Bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of River Thames near Blackfriars Bridge by Stephen Richards as part of the Geograph project.
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River Thames near Blackfriars Bridge
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 16 Oct 2016
The south bank immediately west of the bridge, the river level very high. Going up on the left is 'One Blackfriars' (Image]), and in front of it is Image To the right is Sea Containers House, built in the late 1970s as a hotel and recently refurbished additionally as offices. Behind is the recently re-clad and heightened Kings Reach (Image]), its 1970s brown cladding having been successfully refreshed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. It has been re-branded South Bank Tower. Far right is the Oxo tower (1928, by A.W. Moore). This picture shows the full building as well as previous versions of aforementioned buildings (Image]).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.508412
Longitude
-0.106845