Our new location in London Bridge gives us a great opportunity to sample some of the stranger events that crop up in and around London’s South Bank.

Today saw the opening of a new installation called the Telectroscope, so a few of us here at TheFrameworks took the opportunity to pop down and have a look.

Located outside City Hall, the Telectroscope allows members of the public to watch and wave (in real time) to people in New York peering through an identical scope located near the Brooklyn Bridge.

It’s the invention of London-based artist Paul St George and uses a broadband internet connection to transmit video images between the two locations, giving the impression the two cities are connected via a telescopic device that makes use of ancient tunnels running underneath the Atlantic Ocean.

For £1 you look down the pipe and see New Yorkers looking back.

The installation was created by Artichoke, the creative company responsible for The Sultan’s Elephant that paraded through Central London two years ago, and runs until 15 June 2008.