Tower Bridge High Level Walkways | Purcell

Tower Bridge Exhibition, one of London’s most iconic attractions, today unveils a world first for its visitors with the opening of new glass floor across its high-level Walkways, 42 metres above the Thames – the most significant change to the Exhibition since it first opened in 1982.

Measuring 11 metres long and 1.8 metres wide, the new glass floor will significantly enhance the attraction experience, allowing visitors to enjoy a unique viewpoint of the world-famous bridge lifts.

Provided by the City of London Corporation and developed under the auspices of its Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee, plans for Tower Bridge Exhibition’s new £1M glass floor has been underway for two years. With circa 600,000 visitors per year, the attraction now expects this exciting new feature to significantly increase visitor numbers.

The flooring across each Walkway comprises of six panels, each weighing 530 kilograms, supported by a carbon steel framework weighing approximately 1,000 kilograms. The Walkways original steel lattice structure has been preserved under the glass. The installation took a 20-strong team to construct over a six-week period.

Tower Bridge Exhibition tells the history of the Bridge through animations and displays, across its towers, high-level panoramic Walkways and the atmospheric Victorian Engine Rooms.

With breathtaking vistas of the Capital, the experience of visiting the high-level Walkways will now be bolstered with the addition of three interactive touch screens showcasing how the Bridge raises in its modern context. Whilst the popular Great Bridges of the World exhibition has been refreshed, now featuring 40 of the world’s most revered bridges, each of which represents a breathtaking feat of engineering.