More London

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City Hall, showing the rest of the More London Development under construction in the background
City Hall, showing the rest of the More London Development under construction in the background
The front entrance to 6 More London Place
The front entrance to 6 More London Place

More London is a new development on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately south-west of Tower Bridge in London. The southern exit is on Tooley Street.

It includes the City Hall, a sunken amphitheatre called The Scoop, office blocks, shops, restaurants, cafes, and a pedestrianized area containing open-air sculptures and water features, including fountains lit by coloured lights. The Hilton London Tower Bridge hotel opened in September 2006.

More London is 13 acres in size and has planning consent for three million square feet of mixed use space, of which up to two million square feet will be offices, accommodating up to 20,000 people. The buildings were designed by Foster and Partners architects and some are still under construction. The buildings are known as 1 & 6 More London Place, and 2, 3 & 4 More London Riverside.

The area contains many professional services and financial services firms, including Ernst & Young whose European headquarters is 1 More London Place, Lawrence Graham, Norton Rose, Markit Group Limited, Terra Firma Capital Partners, Cargill Investor Services, Hewitt Associates whose European headquarters is 6 More London Place, HgCapital, Actis, Aureos Advisers and Research International. Other types of firms in the buildings include Truphone, Visit London, Globeleq, the restaurants Gaucho and DIM T, and the Unicorn Theatre for Children.

There are frequently outdoor exhibitions and cultural events in More London, usually associated with City Hall. For most of 2005 there was a popular open-air exhibition of large environmental photographs called Earth from the Air.

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