Built to celebrate the new Century, and now The O2 arena, the structure was built with a firm grasp of the numbers denoting the passage of time.
It has 12 towers, is 52 metres tall and has a diameter of 365 metres (months, weeks, and days of the year).
Its building site skirts the prime meridian (0° longitude) along the River Thames at the northern end of the Greenwich Peninsula.
Source: The Secrets of London by Post Code: SE (South East), The Spectator, 8 February 2023 and Wikipedia.
blueprint brief – February 2023