The town center resound is the city hall of London. It is the seat of the Greater London Authority and the Mayor OF London. It is on the south bank of the Themse in the quarter Southwark, between the Tower Bridge and the station London Bridge. The building sketched by Norman Foster in July 2002 one opened. It is 45 meters high and possesses an effective area of 185.000 m

The building exhibits an unusual tuber-like form. The intention behind is reducing the surface of the building and to increase the energy efficiency. The form of the town center resound already with numerous articles one compared, among them to the helmet an egg, a motorcycle helmet or a "“testicle from glass"”, imprinted by Darth Vader. Fosters vision for this building had been originally an enormous sphere, which floats over the Themse, but he decided then for a somewhat less unorthodox building method.

The town center resound on the area of a former dockyard one established. It is a little further separate part of a larger town development area, by a kind in the soil dug "“Amphitheater"” west of usual The building the Greater London Authority, was belonged not leased however for 25 years to these.

500 meters a long spiral stair, similarly those in the Guggenheim museum in New York, winds oneself the advice hall up. At the point of the building an exhibition and a meeting hall are named "“London's Living Room"” (living room of London) with an open prospect platform, which is occasionally accessible for the public. The spiral stair is to symbolize transparency, similarly as in the glass dome of the realm tag building in Berlin, sketched by Foster.

The seat of the town center OF London is not the town center resounds, but the Guildhall north the Themse. The predecessor organizations of the Greater London Authority, in particular the Greater London Council and London County Council, had their seat in the County resound. This building vis vis the Palace OF Westminster cannot be used today no more for administrative purposes. And supplied to other purposes, among them a luxury hotel and an aquarium were converted.

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• Official Website
• To profile of the town center resound on CityMayors.com

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