The Flickr Southbanktower Image Generatr

Upper Ground, London SE1

Formerly the Kings Reach Tower by Richard Seifert, 1972. Remodelled with 11 additional storeys by Make Architects, 2015.

South Bank

Retocolor Aqua 400
Canon EOS 30
Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

South Bank

Retocolor Aqua 400
Canon EOS 30
Canon 35mm f/1.4L

Kodak UltraMax 400
Canon EOS 30
Canon 35mm f/2

There are a total of 257 steps to the Whispering Gallery, 376 steps up to the Stone Gallery and 528 steps (total) to the Golden Gallery.

Faraday Building in foreground was highly controversial at the time it was built as it blocked the view of St. Paul's Cathedral from the River Thames. This led to a new law that restricted the height of new buildings in London to protect the sightlines of the Cathedral.

Waterloo Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges. Its name commemorates the victory of the British, Dutch and Prussians at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Thanks to its location at a strategic bend in the river, the bridge offers good views of Westminster, the South Bank and the London Eye to the west, and of the City of London and Canary Wharf to the east.

Sea Containers House is a prominent building on the south bank of the River Thames, west of Blackfriars Bridge, in London. Sea Containers House is located towards the eastern end of London's South Bank cultural area, and is within the London Borough of Southwark. A continuous river-side walkway, actually part of the Thames Path, passes in front of and below the building, and links it with near river-side attractions such as the Festival Hall, the National Theatre, the Tate Modern, the Oxo Tower and the Globe Theatre.

The Oxo Tower is a building with a prominent tower on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The building has mixed use as Oxo Tower Wharf containing a set of design, arts and crafts shops on the ground and first floors with two galleries, Bargehouse and gallery@oxo. The Oxo Tower Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie is on the eighth floor, which is the roof-top level with fine and casual dining. In addition to this, situated on the eighth floor is a viewing gallery open to the public. The third to seventh floors contain 78 flats owned by Redwood Housing. Much of the second floor can be hired out for events and weddings.

Oxo Tower Wharf is in the east of London's South Bank cultural area in the London Borough of Southwark. A continuous riverside walkway passes in front of the building, and links it with other riverside attractions such as the Royal Festival Hall, the National Theatre, the Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe.

One Blackfriars is a mixed-use development at No. 1 Blackfriars Road in Bankside, London. It is informally known as The Vase or The Boomerang due to its shape. The development is made up of a 50-storey tower of a maximum height of 166.3 metres and two smaller buildings of six and four storeys respectively. Uses include residential flats, a hotel and retail. In addition, a new public space will be created. The site was formerly occupied by the headquarters of Sainsbury's supermarket.

The top of The Shard can be beyond The Boomerang. The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a pyramid-shaped 72-storey mixed-use development supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and the seventh-tallest building in Europe, the second-tallest outside Russia, only 3 meters less than the Varso Tower in Warsaw. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower of the Emley Moor transmitting station. The Shard replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975.

Southbank Tower (formerly South Bank Tower King's Reach Tower until 2013 is a high-rise building in Stamford Street, Southwark, London. It was originally a thirty-storey structure 111 metres high and was completed in 1972, designed by the architect Richard Seifert and built by John Laing. In recent years, the tower has undergone extensive redevelopment and a height increase.

The tower is similar in design to Tower 42, which was designed by the same architect.

240 Blackfriars is a major development composed of two distinct components that seeks to define the skyline at a pivotal junction of road, rail and river. The site is initially sliced in two to create a large commercial parallelogram and a small residential trapezoid in plan. The parallelogram is extruded up 90 metres (20 storeys) to form a sharp-edged crystalline volume, which is then cut away to respond to context: to the south to minimise the impact to Ludgate House, diagonally to the north to orientate the building towards the river and city; at street level to add generosity to the public realm and across the roof to create a reflective triple-height ‘sky-room’. In contrast, the dark masonry trapezoid is extruded up six levels and then carved away to create loggias, terraces and gardens for its ten residential apartments.

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 346 km, it is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.

The river rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire and flows into the North Sea near Tilbury, Essex and Gravesend, Kent, via the Thames Estuary. The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway, derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock. Its tidal section includes most of its London stretch and has a rise and fall of 7 m. From Oxford to the estuary, the Thames drops by 55 metres.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Bridge

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Containers_House

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxo_Tower

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Blackfriars

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbank_Tower

www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/tall-building/240-blackfriars-road/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames

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Grabbed this shot a couple of weeks ago on a random day off from work.

Went with just a 2 minute exposure here as my hands were so cold by this point I was worried they might drop off!

It's a composition I first spotted last summer and I've returned a couple of times since to capture it in different conditions.

I'm not the world's biggest fans of building like these, but can't deny they gain a glossy patina on occasion that I find attractive.

The scene from Waterloo Bridge looking across the span of the Thames from St. Paul's Cathedral over on the left to the Southbank Tower on the opposite side of the river, with The Shard sneakily sandwiched between that and One Blackfriars. In the distance you can just about make out the towers of Canary Wharf.

Nice warm light but the temperature was pretty chilly standing in the cold breeze up on the bridge wearing shorts as I still am these days.

I decided to go with a rare 16:9 crop on this one as it felt like the scene worked with a wider frame than my usual 3:2 ...

Shot from a very chilly Waterloo Bridge last weekend, here’s a two and a half minute exposure at blue hour taken with my iPhone and the excellent ‘Even Longer’ app.

I love the look of London when there’s still that deep blue in the sky and the lights are all on in the buildings and twinkling in the evening twilight …

One Blackfriars und Southbank Tower von der Millenium Bridge aus gesehen.

Former passenger ferry, the Gosport Queen, converted 2018 into a Thames party boat. "The only floating 360 degree bar in London".

Looking east from Waterloo Bridge towards Blackfriars Bridge and, in distance, the Canary Wharf towers.