Skylon (Festival of Britain)
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The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that gave the illusion of 'floating' above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, "It had no visible means of support".
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The Queen's Walk, London Lambeth (London Borough of Lambeth)
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N 51.504722222222 ° | E -0.11861111111111 ° |
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Jubilee Walkway
The Queen's Walk
SE1 7PG London, Lambeth (London Borough of Lambeth)
England, United Kingdom
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