LONDON | Broadgate Tower | 540 FT / 165 M | 36 FLOORS

wjfox2004 · #1 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 11:24 PM**

LONDON: Broadgate Tower

This is getting quite tall now (it's about halfway up), so I thought I'd create a thread for it.

Broadgate Tower will become the 3rd tallest building in London's main financial district (after Tower 42, and SwissRe),
and the 6th tallest building in London as a whole. The architects are Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and the developers
are British Land.

Here are some renderings -

wjfox2004 · #2 Posted **Dec 4, 2006, 11:28 PM**

Some recent pics.

In this aerial view, look for the red cranes above and to the right of SwissRe -

Live webcam -

hoosier · #3 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 12:08 AM**

Thank you for starting a thread on this building.

hoosier · #4 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 12:08 AM**

dp

Hoodrat · #5 Posted **Dec 5, 2006, 3:16 AM**

Nice to see.

Can't say I'd complain about any news about London...greatest city on the planet!

wjfox2004 · #6 Posted **Dec 16, 2006, 9:12 PM**

Having seen the first few panes of cladding up close, it looks really average in my opinion - nothing special at all.

Anyway, here's a few pics I took today -

Benhamin · #7 Posted **Dec 16, 2006, 10:09 PM**

I have only positive things to say about this tower.

wjfox2004 · #8 Posted **Mar 8, 2007, 7:58 AM**

Kroy Wen · #9 Posted **Mar 8, 2007, 9:42 AM**

^great photo! What is that viaduct?

DUBAI2015 · #10 Posted **Mar 8, 2007, 4:02 PM**

Alot of cranes for such a little tower.

Pandemonious · #11 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 12:35 AM**

This is a great tower. I love how it has a more classic SOM style to it. The space between the buildings is pretty cool.

wjfox2004 · #12 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 7:19 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kroy Wen

^great photo! What is that viaduct?

That's one of the train lines running through Shoreditch (currently under redevelopment IIRC) and through to Liverpool Street Station, the main transport hub in the financial district.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...m=1&iwloc=addr

Quote:

Originally Posted by DUBAI2015

Alot of cranes for such a little tower.

Heh, I wouldn't call it "little".

It will be the 3rd tallest building in Central London, and one of the biggest in terms of floorspace. Actually, it's really 2 buildings. There's the main tower and then a separate groundscraper joining it -

Here's a few more pics from SSC. This first one I took myself, from a tower in Canary Wharf. The Broadgate Tower is on the far right -