27 June 2006. Once again I was in London for work and it was one of several visits to the Centrepoint building. The Association of Colleges (AoC) was based there, as was the National Information and Learning Technologies Association (NILTA) and The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
It afforded some wonderful surrounding views of London. Senate House was the flagship building and administrative centre of the University of London. King George V laid the foundations stone in 1933 and it opened three years later, a huge Art Deco edifice that somehow managed to disappoint both the traditionalists and modernists. It was, at the time, the home of JISC Regional Support Centre for London. It was such an iconic building that it features in some big box office films such as Nineteen Eight-Four, Batman Begins, The Dark Kight Rises, Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang and No Time to Die. This is not a full list...
The sinuous curves of the roof of the British Museum was quite new at this time and this was the first time I had been able to get a glimpse of the external view.
Looking downriver towards Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast.
Looking west along Oxford Street. The Post Office Tower (or was it the BT Tower by then?) dominates the skyline and the green swathe of Hyde Park is clearly seen.
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