....boys jumping around made me aware of different levels at the site; first focused on the part of the site between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge; main buildings enclosed by the bridges are: Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Hayward

 

a group of boys, doing Parkours; jumping off buildings, stairs, doing flips, jumps, handstands, balancing on railings and sculptures

WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE/WHO IS THERE?

• arranged skateboard park
• street performer/artists
• tourist attractions
• theatres 
• cinema
• restaurants
• cafés
• musicians
• artists
• tourists
• pedestrians

WHAT IS THERE?

London Aquarium

Jubilee Gardens

London Eye

Royal Festival Hall

Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Hayward

BFI

IMAX

enclosed by:

Westminster Bridge

Hungerford Bridge

Waterloo Bridge

LONDON EYE

The 135m diameter London Eye has changed the "nature and pattern of the touristic attractions in the area, helping to revitalise Westminster Bridge and the South Bank."

Allinson, Ken. (1994) London´s contemporary architecture. Oxford: Architectural Press

THE SITE-SOUTHBANK

"Forget six counties overhung

with smoke,

 forget the snorting steam and

piston stroke,

forget the spreading of the 

hideous town;

think rather of the packhorse

of the down,

       and dream of London, small white

and clean,

 the clear thames bordered by

its gardens green. "

From an Earthly Paradise. 

William Morris