{"id":15498,"date":"2014-10-08T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15498"},"modified":"2014-10-08T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:33:55","slug":"london-in-miniature-the-fabulous-scale-model-at-the-building-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-in-miniature-the-fabulous-scale-model-at-the-building-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"London in miniature: the fabulous scale model at the Building Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-01.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-building-centre-and-its-astonishing-pipers-scale-model-of-central-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">visited the Building Centre back in 2011<\/a> and was suitably impressed by the amazing Pipers 1:1500 scale model of London which dominates the\u00a0ground floor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-02.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-03.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I last visited, there&#8217;s been quite a few new additions to the map (in white), as London&#8217;s skyscrapers continue to sprout up all over the capital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-04.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-05.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/view-from-the-shard-a-trip-to-the-top-of-the-tallest-building-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Shard<\/a> next to the London Bridge redevelopment,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-06.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Strata tower, with its infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-rarely-spinning-turbines-of-the-strata-tower-south-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">non-working turbines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-07.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Blackfriars station, located on what\u00a0claims to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/photos-of-london-blackfriars-railway-bridge-the-worlds-largest-solar-powered-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s largest solar powered bridge<\/a>,.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-08.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/walkie-talkie-tower-fenchurch-st-crackles-into-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walkie Talkie tower<\/a>\u00a0whch hit the headlines because of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/developers-unveil-plans-to-stop-the-walkie-talkie-towers-car-melting-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\">car-melting rays<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-09.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-10.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-11.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-12.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olympic stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-13.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-14.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/silvertown-woolwich.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thames Barrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-15.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Emirates%20Air Line cable car from North Greenwich to the Royal Docks, London\" target=\"_blank\">Emirates Air Line cable car<\/a> from North Greenwich to the Royal Docks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-map-building-centre-16.jpg\" alt=\"The Scale Model of central London at the Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-building-centre-and-its-astonishing-pipers-scale-model-of-central-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">See photos from my 2011 visit here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitor details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Building Centre is on\u00a0Store Street,\u00a0London,\u00a0WC1E 7BT<br \/>\nT: +44 (0) 207 692 4000<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingcentre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.buildingcentre.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Hours<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday to Friday:<br \/>\n9.30 am \u2013 6.00 pm<br \/>\nSaturday:<br \/>\n10.00 am \u2013 5.00 pm<\/p>\n<p>Admission: free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More London photos here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first visited the Building Centre back in 2011 and was suitably impressed by the amazing Pipers 1:1500 scale model of London which dominates the\u00a0ground floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[199,999,10,351],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-building-centre","tag-london","tag-skyscraper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/london-map-building-centre-011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-41Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15506,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions\/15506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}