LONDON | Project Compilation Thread

[muppet]

Canary Wharf - one of 5 rising clusters

2017:




https://envosort.co.uk/portfolio-ite...wharf-skyline/



Now:

P1000057 by RJS London, on Flickr

[clubtokyo]

Beautiful skyline! Can’t wait to visit soon!

[colemonkee]

Amazing! So incredibly different from when I was there in 2009. Looks like it's time to go back...

[muppet]

Twentytwo approaching practical completion, photos courtesy of James Burns and Jason Hawkes:

[colemonkee]

With all the amazing architecture and unique massings/shapes in The City, it's a bummer that Twentytwo is the tallest in the cluster. It's not bad, per se, just outshined by all it's immediate neighbors.

[muppet]

Yep 22 is deeply unpopular with Londoners, hopefully it'll be drowned out by other neighbours that will one day shoulder in. The original design was sublime, a spiralling shard of interlacing glass- but it got value engineered into a bulky, squat monster.

From this:


www.skyscrapernews.com


tO THIS


https://images.skyscrapercenter.com



We can but hope - the one with the X grids is set to stand nearby, if ever it breaks ground *cough* Brexit *cough*.

[Dale]

Originally Posted by muppet

Yep 22 is deeply unpopular with Londoners, hopefully it'll be drowned out by other neighbours that will one day shoulder in. The original design was sublime, a spiralling shard of interlacing glass- but it got value engineered into a bulky, squat monster.

From this:


www.skyscrapernews.com


tO THIS


https://images.skyscrapercenter.com



We can but hope - the one with the X grids is set to stand nearby, if ever it breaks ground *cough* Brexit *cough*.

I don’t get the impression that 1 Undershaft has anything to do with Brexit.

[muppet]

Almost all the tall building commissions - which are the most sensitive to loss - are waiting it out to see the Brexit outcome before breaking ground (and property prices and applications have been falling sharply since the 2016 vote). Land prices, currency devaluation, loss of workforce and change in demand will all be affected. The current 'boom' is largely just the completion of projects from before the vote.

[muppet]

London from 13:35

I think this exemplifies the density of the city which is normally lowered due to the large amount of parkland, despite the fact the residents suffer the smallest average property space in the West (10% lower than Japan even).

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[Danie]

I like 20 Fenchurch Street the most

[tdawg]

Absolutely bonkers the changes that have happened to London's skyline since I was there over a decade ago.

[muppet]

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[IMBY]

Thanks for uploading that!

[GertElim]

I visited London this weekend.
It's amazing to see the skyline changing over the last decade.

All pics by me, October 2nd 2022.

1.
Construction in the Nine Elms neighborhood.


2.
Canary Wharf.


3.
City of London.

[colemonkee]

Whoa!! It's insane how much the St. George Wharf area has grown! Vauxhall Tower used to be lone tall tower in that area. We definitely need more frequent London updates here. So much good stuff going up. Thank you, GertElim!

[thoughtcriminal]

City of London to get 11 new towers in the next six years:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...qA7ba8-MayBCTM

[Drcastro]

Looks like both 100 Leadenhall and 1 Undershaft are in redesign mode. Apologies if this repeats anything above; I didn’t read the whole thread.

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/som-...120859.article

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/...llest-building

[ahealy]

Funny question... is this the main page for all things London on SSP?

I really wanna follow more and hate reddit. Thanks y'all

[Alpha Sky]

Enjoy!

[IMG]
P1100792 by alpha_futura, on Flickr[/IMG]

[chris08876]

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Mount Pleasant Development

Mount Pleasant, a gentle rise between Kings Cross and Farringdon in north London, has always been something of a misnomer. From the 16th to the 19th century, it was home to a stinking heap of rubbish and human excrement. The great dump was finally cleared in 1794 to make way for an imposing brick prison, the notorious Clerkenwell Gaol, where inmates were forced to grind treadmills and pick oakum amid overflowing sewers. It was cleared again in the 1880s for a gargantuan postal sorting office, the largest in the world at the time, which has stood as a majestic shed ever since.

The three-hectare site next to the sorting office is now subject to a planning application for 700 mostly private flats, to be erected in a series of hefty blocks rising up to 15 storeys, which will frame narrow canyons of “public” space in their shadow.

The application, submitted by the recently privatised Royal Mail Group to Islington and Camden councils, whose boundary the site spans, has garnered an increasing amount of hostility, with designer and local resident Thomas Heatherwick now joining the calls to see it halted.
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Oliver Wainwright
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddes...t-on-democracy
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The development:
Note: (A nimby video but it shows the site, and gives some information on the project. For some reason, due to the insane NIMBY response on this project, the developer has been a little covert relating to the development)
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