2013-03-25
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Drones form giant, glowing ‘Star Trek’ logo over London to promote Star Trek Into Darkness. The Verge:
a giant, glowing Starfleet insignia in the London night sky comprised of 30 LED-illuminated quadrotors, the 308-foot-tall logo rotated in place 118 feet above ground before dimming its lights alongside those of Tower Bridge and Big Ben in recognition of the WWF’s Earth Hour conservation effort.
They also include a link to a video of the logo.
2011-06-27
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SE1 reports that Giant Olympic rings to be attached to Tower Bridge for the Olympics (via, via).
Also:
The news comes following a deal announced recently by the Mayor of London between City Hall, City of London Corporation and London 2012 Sustainability partners EDF and GE to install a new energy-efficient colour-changing lighting system on Tower Bridge.
The new flexible lighting system would able enable evening lighting displays during the games such as the use of gold, silver and bronze lighting effects to mark sporting medal successes.
2011-03-19
Bridges: A Guide (1/3)
Photographs by Annie Mole and myself.
(As an aside: because Tower Bridge is in London, and so many people get this wrong, looking for photos of London Bridge on Flickr (and probably Google Images) is really, really hard. Sigh.)
2010-01-14
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John Gay extensively photographed urban scenes, particularly in London. He published a book of photographs of the capital,London Observed, in 1964. This is his own take on Tower Bridge.
2008-11-26
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potlatch: Westfield attacks Tower Bridge
On possibly the worst of the many terrible adverts for Westfield, by the same author as Psychogeography at Westfield.
