Buildings and landmarks of London

Tower of London	Tower Bridge	City Hall
Trafalgar Square	Admiralty Arch	Buckingham Palace
Horse Guards	St James' Palace	Guidhall Covent Garden
The Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)	Westminster Abbey	Jewel House
St Paul's Cathedral	Guildhall	Royal Exchange
Golden Hinde	Shakespeare Globe	The London Eye
The Monument	The Gherkin	Cleopatra's Needle
Lambeth Palace	Eros	Canary Wharf Tower
Big Ben		The O2 - Millenium Dome

Canary Wharf Tower

Canary Wharf

The Tallest building in the UK is in Canary Wharf, part of the London Docklands. One Canada Square, known as the Canary Wharf Tower, is 244 metres high and covered in stainless steel.

The O2 - Millenium Dome

Millenium Dome

The O2 in London is the largest dome in the world, covering over 180 acres; it is 320m in diameter and 50m high with support towers reaching 100m. It can accomodate Nelson's Column standing upright and the Eiffel Tower placed horizontally.
It was built on the Greenwich Meridian (0 degrees longitude) to commemorate the new millennium.
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Buildings and landmarks you can see from the River Thames

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