browse by city
New York, NY (722)
Toronto, ON (720)
Brooklyn, NY (713)
Montreal, QC (376)
London, UK (286)
complete city list
popular articles
Ditmas Park
from: Peter
Coast
from: Peter
Shad Crossing
from: Peter
South Philly May 4th: Art, Indicators, People, Etc.
from: serlingrod
Destruction or Art
from: Robert Emanuel
what's hot this month?
recent articles
Journey Down Baltimore Avenue
from: serlingrod
Cosplay
from: chiamattt
The Star of India
from: jack
May 11 2008 Berlin
from: hool
The Wealth and the Poverty.
from: jack
The Werewolf of Dogdyke
from: Lincoln
Hell Gate
from: Cart Legger
Kitten and Roosters
from: lunapark
Destruction or Art
from: Robert Emanuel
Saturday Afternoon, Bushwick
from: Peter
read all today's articles
browse by author
Peter (740)
joey (262)
EvilGentleman (261)
hool (244)
jack (220)
complete author list
hot topics
graffiti
Justo Gallego
JA One
graf trux
parkour
fuck neck face
wheat paste
nyc
sane smith
graf
sixy
hool
harlem
banksy
brooklyn
Canary Wharf Porn
London, UK - elaine - Friday, May 20th, 2005 : goo
[previous] :: [next]
here's a tour of different views of canary wharf (the pointy one, of course). i happen to like this building and look at it a lot, and these photos span some time. what i have realised though is i don't have one showing how close up canary wharf is actually quite dominated by the surrounding buildings, so doubtless more to come...
first 6 from my bedroom window, due north of the wharf
this one from 'tower gateway' dlr station which is due east and right by tower bridge
this from a bit more north, thru the gasworx i love
and this i took today from greenwich, which is of course south
This article has been viewed 8021 times in the last 3 years
ian: 20th May 2005 - 19:37 GMT
I have mixed feelings about Pelli's designs, but in particular, I've always thought Canary Wharf was a bit of a chubby skyscraper. Feels like an extrusion of a soulless suburban office park. It's severely lacking in elegance or ambition.
elaine: 20th May 2005 - 20:39 GMT
aw, thats a bit harsh. its better than the plain square ones, no? also it is a context thing. if it had been built in the city i may never have noticed it, but on the isle of dogs it has held it's own i think
elaine: 21st May 2005 - 09:22 GMT
also, re context, our history with high rise building is very different from the US version, cheap tower blocks thrown up postwar to house the poorest when homelessness and slum clearance became acute, so we are not really used to good vertical buildings. even the city is not like downtown anywhere america, the tall buildings there are few even today. the barbican centre is the only good quality cohesive high rise space, and even that started off life as council housing with an arts centre. visually london is oddly comparable to LA. no grid of course and different trees, but standing on a roof in west hollywood i could see mainly low rise and trees, albeit palm trees, and downtown in a little huddle, and santa monica being the highrise markers. london is a lot like that. quite flat, some hills, mainly low rise, surprisingly green from above, and the city and docklands jabbing upwards, with the remains of highrise housing occasionally dotted about. we have 2 goldfinger council blocks which have become desirable, the rest is living on borrowed time, as one by one they are picked off.obvioulsy now we have the gherkin as well as some other nice ones in the city which are better than the docklands offerings, but when you go down there you get some other visual information - the whole thing is built around the old docks, so it looks like a high rise venice. plus it is ultimately limited as to how far out it can spread because it is on a loopy bit of the river so it is hedged east and west, and there is a major road stopping it going north anytime soon. it has it's limitations, for instance when i was working at the college nearby if you sent students there to draw or take photos they got hassled by security, so it is very business driven, but it is unusual and interesting for us here, in a way that it wouldn't be for you - like when i went to new york and yanks insisted on taking us to see old stuff in museums, we got that in spades so it was hard to get excited, but i loved the skyscraper walking tour we went on and going up the empire state building, and when given the choice i went to visit the guggenheim, of course (and walked back through the park, always good)
Peter: 23rd May 2005 - 13:15 GMT
are those first few sunset or sunrise? the sun looks really golden in them. also: as always, i love the gas works!
elaine : 23rd May 2005 - 13:17 GMT
first ones sunrise, trackside sunset. well spotted, i forgot i did that in the morning!
jack: 23rd Aug 2005 - 15:59 GMT
very well done, my compliments, i liked the photo thru the gas spires. the building on the right appears to be sitting on a body of water, sim to venice. the dunginess of the industrial area, the projection into the future of beauty and low and behold, ducks in the water. a great vision of photo excellence. you have an eye.
elaine: 23rd Aug 2005 - 16:14 GMT
ta, jack. of course, as it is a gasworks it is very definately not on the water... that would be tres dangereuse. recent canary wharf pic here and there are two more gasworks articles here and here if yr interested. i love them, personally, as i am a big fan of engineering as architecture (hence i also big up the gherkin as i view it as a return to brunel-esque form)
Comment on this article
[previous] :: [next]
search citynoise.org
recent discussions
Cosplay
from: chiamattt
Irlam, Manchester
from: Andrew Smith
Clean Canvasses?
from: Peter
Cabrini Green [whats Left of It]
from: corsakti
Fredericton Transit
from: CE
Banksy Photos + Other Graf
from: SpankyHam
Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004
from: CE
Baron Von Fancy
from: Catherine Penfold-Waxman
May 11 2008 Berlin
from: hool
M.s.g. Found in Charlotte,N.C.
from: Jimmy J.
from the archives
Laughing Mushroom
i couldn't help but notice this mushroom was laughing at me as i walked by it...
recently viewed
Canary Wharf Porn
from: elaine
Peoples of the Danforth
from: Elicar
Spring Is Here, Unofficially..
from: Unknown
Waiting for My Train
from: joey
Overpass, Underrated
from: Chris Jongkind
The Waterside
from: Jamie
Wheatpasting: How to
from: An@Rch15T
Squatter's Haven on OranienburgerstraBe
from: Vamessedup
The Instruments of Science, Part I
from: procyon
NZONE, (icf)
from: Peter
concept and content © citynoise.org 2002 - 2006 : designed and maintained by
jamie (jamazon.co.uk) and
peter (rhodamine.org) (with special thanks
to jamie's php-god coding skillz).
caveat: entries and comments on citynoise.org represent
the views of their respective authors; this is an open forum, open to
all relevant ideas,
and as such, sees minimal editorial interference. as such, all content
on this site remains property of its creator/author, and is therefore
protected by all applicable copyright laws.