South Bank Cultural Walk

The London Eye is a massive, cantilevered observation wheel standing one hundred thirty-five meters tall on the South Bank of the River Thames. Its design features thirty-two glass capsules that rotate slowly over the water, allowing…

The Royal Festival Hall sits on the south bank of the River Thames as a prominent, modernist structure defined by its clean lines and wide, open foyers. It opened on May third, nineteen fifty-one, as the primary permanent building for the…

The National Theatre is defined by its massive, interlocking terraces of raw, pale concrete that cascade toward the River Thames. Designed by architect Denys Lasdun and completed in nineteen seventy-six, this Brutalist landmark was…

The Oxo Tower is distinguished by four sets of windows near its top, each featuring a circle, a cross, and a circle. These openings spell out the letters O-X-O on all four sides of the Art Deco tower, which rises nine stories above the…

The Tate Modern is recognizable by its long, hulking brick exterior and the singular ninety-nine-meter chimney stack that rises from the center of its roofline. Located on the south bank of the River Thames, the building began as the…

Shakespeare’s Globe is an open-air, circular theatre defined by its white plaster walls and distinctive thatched roof, nestled along the south bank of the River Thames. This building is a reconstruction of the original Elizabethan…

Borough Market is recognizable by the heavy iron-and-glass roof structures that shelter rows of stalls beneath towering Victorian railway viaducts. Its history stretches back nearly one thousand years to the southern end of London Bridge,…