London City Hall Detail

In July of 2002, this wildly modern building opened next to the famous Tower Bridge on the south bank of the Thames in London. It's the new London city hall, seat of power of the Greater London Authority and the successor to the Greater London Council, shut down in 1986 by Margaret Thatcher. She believed that the head of the GLC , Ken Livingston and his associates were too leftist. For 14 years London was the only major city in the world with no central adminstration, but in 2000, Londoners once again elected a mayor by the name of Ken Livingston.