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Google Earth Tower 42 and Swiss Re London

By Google Earth 10-20

The latest building is Tower 42 in London, coupled with a simplified 30 St Mary Axe. Tower 42 is the tallest building in the City of London at 183 metres compared to 179.8 metres for its neighboring 30 St Mary Axe. Built in 1980 by Architects Seifert and Partners, Tower 42 was originally home to the Natwest Bank with rumours that its unique shape mirrored the Natwest’s logo at the time. This seems to be however an urban myth, the building is now an office complex with a restaurant on the 42nd floor offering views of London.

The file is only 28k…

You can download the kmz file to fly into the model in Google Earth here (28k)

3D Microsoft Live Local

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Microsoft’s Live Local includes ‘Birds Eye’ images which provide various views around buildings. Its interesting in terms of views but compared to Google Earth lacks any interactivty or 3D Element.

Therefore, using these images we thought it would be interesting to try and construct 3D Models from the data. Below displays an image from the output, you basically get a 3D model rendered out of the webpage screengrab. You could of course then port it into Google Earth….

A Quicktime movie of the model can be viewed from here (8Mb).

Google Earth Euston Tower London

By Google Earth 10-20

The Euston Tower dominates the top end of Tottenham Court Road, London. Built in 1970 the tower is non-descript, being most famous in London for being the previous home of Capital Radio and dubbed the ‘Power Tower’.

You can download the kmz file to fly into the model in Google Earth here (700k)

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