London is a city that will never be finished. It tells a story from the past present and future because it combines many different architectural styles . What impressed me the most are the modern buildings which were mostly constructed after 2000. Especially two districts represent these the best, which I will show you now:
Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf, or also known as the business district, is characterised by huuuuge skyscrapers. Those are the home of an incredible number of well-known banks like HSBC, J.P. Morgan and many, many more. Around 105,000 people work here and most of them in finances. It seems to me as if the architects battled each other by trying to build the most impressive building. True to the motto „THE BIGGER THE BETTER“! Even though it cannot be found in the city centre but in the very east of London, it still is an important part of the city and highly representative.
City Centre
The district that might be better known, is the city centre. Here you can find the typical skyscrapers that are often on wallpapers, skyline drawings and so on. What surprised my was the fact that there is no clean/clear cut between the modern buildings and the historical ones. All buildings are embedded and somehow interconnected which leaves you with a very harmonic view.
The building I liked most was the famous Gherkin. I stood there like 15 minutes and took pictures of it from different angles. The highest of them all is the Shard which was build in 2014. It is 306 meters high and therefore the tallest building in europe (but soon not the tallest in the EU ;))! I could talk about every single one of them but that would take a lot of my and your time. So just have a look at the gallery because pictures say more than words! See you!
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