Millbank Millennium Pier
| 35px London River Services | |
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| Millbank Millennium Pier | |
 Millbank Pier | |
| Locale | River Thames, London, UK |
| Transit type | River bus and tourist/leisure services |
| Owner | London River Services |
| Operator | London River Services |
| Website | official website |
| London River Services | |
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Millbank Millennium Pier is a pier on the River Thames, in London, United Kingdom. It is served by boats operating under licence from London River Services and is situated close to the Tate Britain art gallery on Millbank, between Lambeth Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge on the west bank of the Thames.
Services
The pier is served by the Tate-to-Tate river bus service, which links the Tate Britain with the Tate Modern Gallery via a Thames boat service.
Millennium fund
Millbank Millennium Pier was opened on 22 May 2003 by London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Its creation was funded by the Millennium Commission as part of the Thames 2000 project, and it was the fifth and last of the new central London piers built with funding from the Millennium Commission (the others being Blackfriars Millennium Pier, Waterloo Millennium Pier, Westminster Millennium Pier and Tower Millennium Pier). The project was part of an integrated transport and regeneration strategy for the Thames led by London's Cross-River Partnership.[1]
Design and Construction
The Millbank Millennium Pier was designed and project managed by Beckett Rankine with Marks Barfield Architects and the artist Angela Bulloch. The pier is notable for its angular, constructivist steel structure. [2] The main contractor was Mowlem with the steel fabrication by K&N Welding and electrical work by Philipsons. The pier has been awarded a number of prizes for its distinctive design, including a RIBA award[3], a Commendation by the ICE Merit Award judges[4], and a 2004 D&AD Yellow Pencil Award[5].
| Preceding station | 15px London River Services | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Tate to Tate | toward Bankside Pier
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References
- ↑ "Mayor opens Lottery funded Millbank Pier". The Millennium Commission press release. 2000-05-21. http://www.millennium.gov.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1437. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
- ↑ Jonathan Glancey (2003-05-19). "Go with the flow". The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,958689,00.html. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ↑ RIBA (2004). "Winners of RIBA Awards 2004 and RIBA Worldwide Awards announced". http://www.architecture.com/NewsAndPress/News/AwardsNews/Press/2004/WinnersOfRIBAAwards2004AndRIBAWor.aspx. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ↑ "Millbank Millennium Pier". http://www.millbankpier.co.uk/. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ↑ D&AD Awards (2004). "Design for Industry, Transport and the Workplace Silver Award". http://www.dandad.org/awards2004/entry.asp?entry_id=d_40359. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
Coordinates: 51°29′31″N 0°07′30″W / 51.491864°N 0.124992°W
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