Latest proposals for tall buildings in the City of London are slab-sided square, and maximise high-value "corner offices"....
...supposedly inspired by Gotham City (tho I don't see it myself)
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....Outside the insurance industry's heartland, construction on the 100 Bishopsgate tower, owned by Canadian developer Brookfield and the Pinnacle skyscraper, backed by Saudi Arabian investment manager SEDCO, has stalled amid a fruitless search for tenants..."
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| "stalled" 100 Bishopsgate |
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423765/Welcome-Gotham-City-London--400million-skyscraper-complex-inspired-Batman-film-planned-capital.html#ixzz2gOUGUBty
Leadenhall Triangle is near the 19th-c cast-iron covered Leadenhall Market (used in some Harry Potter movies), and the inside-out Lloyds of London building. Henderson are also behind the recent attempt to redevelop Victorian Snithfield Market as offices...
All this despite the "Death-ray disaster" of the Walkie-Talkie building, see
(http://londonlandscapeobservatory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/did-walkie-talkie-building-melt-car.html
as I said earlier....
A good friend remarked as we passed by on the 25 bus, "What has happened to the London Skyline? It looks like someone has tipped out the shapes from a a toddlers posting box and stood them on end as buildings...." . It is hard to disagree.
On further talk , my artist friend made a telling point, "Trouble with Architects they think art is about shape. To artists it is the relationships, particularly of shape to space, but also the wider relationships that count".
Anyroad-up. The result of this speculative waste of money is that London will be bequeathed a series of landmarks to navigate by as effective as rock formations "the Bridestone" "Old Mother Baking Bread" and "the Pepper Pot" in Derbyshire.
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| Pepper Pot |
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| Cheese Wedge |
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| Gherkin |
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| Walkie Talkie |
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| Shard (baby shard to come!) |
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