Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
This is Canary Wharf, on the Isle of Dogs, London. Canary Wharf contains the UK’s three tallest buildings, the 1 Canada Square building (235m), the HSBC Tower (200m) and the Citigroup Centre (199m). As ever, tons of fascinating info on Canary Wharf at Wikipedia.
Immediately to the west of the Canada Square building you can also see the glass roof of the Canary Wharf Docklands light railway station (Wikipedia entry).
Thanks: Merk, Jonathan Rawle, Adam Sadler and Alan.
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The Thames Barrage (flood prevention in case of very high tides) is located nearby:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
When will the Google Earth links work again. It can’t be that hard to fix links to some small files.
It’s not that hard either to click the thumbnail, copy the coordinates out of the address bar, and paste them into Google Earth.
At the seam about one frame to the left, half an airplane in flight.
It looks better now than when I submitted it a while back, as they’ve fixed the distortion since.
No.s 8 and 25 Canada Square are usually quoted as being 200 metres each (even on Wikipedia). I don’t think Citigroup would be pleased to discover their tower is a metre shorter than HSBC’s!
Mugros, with a bit of luck the GE files will be back for the weekend. The problem is not fixing the files, it’s that the script that generated them was eating all our resources as it generated all the links. We’ll post just as soon as the links are back, promise
Jonathan, I could only find a measurement for the Citigroup building in feet, which converted to 199.x metres. I realise they’re probably the same height(ish), but even Wikipedia cites Citigroup as being the *third* tallest building!
Wikipedia says 655 feet, which is 199.64 metres, or 200m to three significant figures… (I’ll have to add it to the page!)
I thought they’d been deliberately designed to be the same height (despite the different architects). Then again, Structurae gives the height as 210m!
Wikipedia says 655 feet, which is 199.64 metres, or 200m to three significant figures… (I’ll have to add it to the page!)
I thought they’d been deliberately designed to be the same height (despite the different architects). Citigroup is listed third as it’s No. 25 as oppsed to 8.
Then again, Structurae gives the height as 210m!
As you might have noticed, the Google Earth links are now functioning again.
if you scroll to the west, you’ll not only see half a plane (this is the main landing route for Heathrow LHR airport) but also the tide is in on one side of the river and out on the other exposing the mud flats on one side!!!!!