A clay model of the Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower), rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

London · United Kingdom

Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower)

96 metres · 315 feet

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Height
96 m315 ft
Completed
1859
By
Augustus Pugin, for Charles Barry
Coordinates
51° 30′ 03″ N0° 07′ 29″ W · 51.5007, -0.1246

A square shaft of buttressed bays, the clock stage with a dial on every face, the belfry above it, and the steep iron spire with its pinnacles.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under London, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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