Colourful Docklands Developments
This image was taken in 2010 and shows some of the then-brand-new buildings on the north bank of the Thames at Blackwall that epitomised the transformation of the Docklands. Just visible on the right is the East India Pier, which is in the Poplar district in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The tall building in the centre was the-then newly-finished 103m-high 29-storey Ontario Tower, a luxury executive housing development that was at that time the tallest purely-residential building in London. It is part of the New Providence Wharf development which includes the crescent to its left and Michigan Building beyond that on the riverbank. The tower under construction on the left of the image is the Streamlight Tower, yet another residential development.
To the right of the Ontario Tower is the smaller Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel and on the far right of the image, the building with all the satellite dishes is Reuters' Docklands Technical Centre (or Blackwall Data Centre). Their main office is slightly further west in Canary Wharf.
Seen from the esplanade in front of the O2 Arena on the south bank of the Thames.
Colourful Docklands Developments
This image was taken in 2010 and shows some of the then-brand-new buildings on the north bank of the Thames at Blackwall that epitomised the transformation of the Docklands. Just visible on the right is the East India Pier, which is in the Poplar district in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The tall building in the centre was the-then newly-finished 103m-high 29-storey Ontario Tower, a luxury executive housing development that was at that time the tallest purely-residential building in London. It is part of the New Providence Wharf development which includes the crescent to its left and Michigan Building beyond that on the riverbank. The tower under construction on the left of the image is the Streamlight Tower, yet another residential development.
To the right of the Ontario Tower is the smaller Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel and on the far right of the image, the building with all the satellite dishes is Reuters' Docklands Technical Centre (or Blackwall Data Centre). Their main office is slightly further west in Canary Wharf.
Seen from the esplanade in front of the O2 Arena on the south bank of the Thames.