Since the 17th century when Charles II built the first Royal Observatory there, Greenwich has enjoyed a reputation throughout the world as a centre of time. The Meridian Line slices through the Observatory, runs past the Queen's House and over the River Thames. It divides the Eastern and Western hemispheres and marks the point where the modern measure of time was born.
Leading Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima realised his installation Running Time as a resonse to the time and place of Greenwich and the rational architecture of the Queen's House, the first classical building in England built in Greenwich to the designs of Inigo Jones in the early 17th century.
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