DOLLAR BAY POINT - BRIEF HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION
Dollar Bay point is a 31 storey, 109M tall glass skyscraper located on the east side of the South Docks on the Isle of Dogs, just outside of the "injunction land" of Canary Wharf.
Construction started in 2014 after a lengthy fight for planning permission and the building was completed in mid 2017.
The developers chose to name the building Dollar Bay after the road it is named on "Dollar Bay Place". The naming of this road referring back to the areas rich docklands history, in particular the role the area played in World War 2. This patch of the West India docks acquired the nickname of Dollar Bay during WW2 when local dock workers would help US Navy boats based here in the war.
Positioned at the far end of the dock it offers a great view of the now rather crowded basin to the west. Although surrounded by higher buildings, it is so far spaced back from them that it offers a great view of them from afar, giving a clear view all the way down the south dock with highrises lining either side. To the east lies a clear view over the Thames with the o2 Arena and north Greenwich peninsular, aswell as London city airport in the distance.
Image from google maps showing dollar bay point in the foreground, looking west over the south dock
THE NIGHT
We had a pretty eventful night and this was towards the end of it, right after hitting up a gas holder after being inspired by @mockney reject we headed in the direction of Canary wharf with no real plan, with it being past midnight at this point we were mainly focused on construction sites without injunctions, I obviously can't talk about entry on here but lets just say we got distracted by all of the shiny highrises and sleepy concierges.
After reaching the rooftop there is a very small walkway up the center of the roof to the highest point. It had been raining most of the day so stepping off of the walkway onto the slippy angled roof didn't seem like a great idea, as much as we wanted to get to the north/south edge of the building we decided against it and stuck to the walkway. Chilled out up there for around 20-30 minutes and then headed back down.
PICTURES
looking west down the south dock, with the landmark pinnacle straight opposite
looking to the north
looking east, towards the river, o2 and london city airport
looking north again towards stratford, along the sheer 109m drop.
looking south west, towards the One thames quay development and the Amory tower on the right
chilling out at the top
Looked up this building on 28DL and saw the last post about this building was in 2015 during construction, thought it would be an alright one for my first report, nothing too exciting.
Feel free to offer constructive criticism or pointers! Cheers.
Dollar Bay point is a 31 storey, 109M tall glass skyscraper located on the east side of the South Docks on the Isle of Dogs, just outside of the "injunction land" of Canary Wharf.
Construction started in 2014 after a lengthy fight for planning permission and the building was completed in mid 2017.
The developers chose to name the building Dollar Bay after the road it is named on "Dollar Bay Place". The naming of this road referring back to the areas rich docklands history, in particular the role the area played in World War 2. This patch of the West India docks acquired the nickname of Dollar Bay during WW2 when local dock workers would help US Navy boats based here in the war.
Positioned at the far end of the dock it offers a great view of the now rather crowded basin to the west. Although surrounded by higher buildings, it is so far spaced back from them that it offers a great view of them from afar, giving a clear view all the way down the south dock with highrises lining either side. To the east lies a clear view over the Thames with the o2 Arena and north Greenwich peninsular, aswell as London city airport in the distance.
Image from google maps showing dollar bay point in the foreground, looking west over the south dock
THE NIGHT
We had a pretty eventful night and this was towards the end of it, right after hitting up a gas holder after being inspired by @mockney reject we headed in the direction of Canary wharf with no real plan, with it being past midnight at this point we were mainly focused on construction sites without injunctions, I obviously can't talk about entry on here but lets just say we got distracted by all of the shiny highrises and sleepy concierges.
After reaching the rooftop there is a very small walkway up the center of the roof to the highest point. It had been raining most of the day so stepping off of the walkway onto the slippy angled roof didn't seem like a great idea, as much as we wanted to get to the north/south edge of the building we decided against it and stuck to the walkway. Chilled out up there for around 20-30 minutes and then headed back down.
PICTURES
looking west down the south dock, with the landmark pinnacle straight opposite
looking to the north
looking east, towards the river, o2 and london city airport
looking north again towards stratford, along the sheer 109m drop.
looking south west, towards the One thames quay development and the Amory tower on the right
chilling out at the top
Looked up this building on 28DL and saw the last post about this building was in 2015 during construction, thought it would be an alright one for my first report, nothing too exciting.
Feel free to offer constructive criticism or pointers! Cheers.
