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Identify London Buildings?

I am sorting out my London photos and am trying to identify a couple of interesting buildings. Any help would be appreciated. 1) Just west of Tower Hill tube station is a building topped by a very large, imposing white "monument" of some sort. I believe the address is One Trinity Square, but I could find no other identification on the building itself, and it isn't mentioned in any of my guidebooks. It quite dominates the skyline in the immediate area of the Tower. Could someone identify the building and perhaps explain the significance of the monument, if such it is? For a photo see: http://pages.prodigy.net/drsawyers/Trinity01.jpg 2) On the north bank of the Thames, downstream from Tower Bridge (maybe Wapping?), is a large, modern glass structure consisting primarily of three somewhat rounded, 7-storey towers with slanting flat roofs. Can someone identify this building and more accurately place its location along the river? For a photo see: http://pages.prodigy.net/drsawyers/Docklands10.jpg Thanks for the help. Dave

The monument on Tower Hill is the memorial of the Port of London Authority, I think to dockers and to sailors dead in the two world wars. Please see http://www.geocities.com/londondestr...vewedding.html. I am afraid I cannot help on the glass building. Ben Haines

Dave The second building is an apartment block called "Cinnabar Wharf". I'm looking at it now in the rain across the river from my flat.

Google tells me that Cinnabar Wharf is at 26 Wapping High Street, London E1, and flats cost from £287,500. The web site is http://www.cityanddocklands.com/portfolio/cinnabar_wharf.htm Ben Haines

The building at 10 Trinity Square, which was built as the headquarters of the Port of London Authority, was sold last year for £60m to be turned into a luxury hotel. Sorry to correct you Ben but it wasn't built as a memorial to the naval dead of two world wars - it was begun in 1912 and completed in 1922. It was designed to represent the greater powers of the new Authority, which took over from the private dock companies. On the tower is Father Thames, allegories of Exportation, to the left a galleon with sea horses, and to the right in a chariot with oxen near the entrance are figures of Commerce and Navigation. There is a memorial to the merchant seaman who perished in the two world wars in the park immediately to the front of the building.