Power house

Source: Nigel Young

London has a new landmark. Foster and Partners' City Hall stands just across the river from the Tower of London and a short trip from the Houses of Parliament, but this glass-clad, energy-saving, fiendishly complex egg is a world away from the capital's other seats of power.

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