London banks ‘will need space of four Shards’ - Financial Times
By Daniel Thomas, Property Correspondent
Published: April 14 2011 20:07 | Last updated: April 14 2011 20:07
More than 11,000 extra staff are forecast to be employed by banks and financial services firms across London over the next three years despite fears about regulation and taxation, reflecting renewed confidence in the capital and the wider economy.
The extra employees will require an additional 1.6m sq ft of space in central London, according to a study commissioned by BNP Paribas Real Estate – equivalent to four towers the size of the Shard or five the size of the Heron Tower in the City.
Welcome back? ha, ha, ha. First time to this thread.
Yeh, I don't know about this. This design.
It's great that London's skyline is growing the way it's been, but has anybody considered going back to Art-Deco? In some places, the Art-Deco skyscraper was coming back. There're a couple of examples in NYC, from the past 15 yrs., which are pretty convincing. After all, there are a lot of smaller Art-Deco bldgs around London.
Wow, that one slipped in under the radar. Speaking of other towers in London, weren't there some Richard Rogers designed office towers in Canary Wharf that started construction a couple of years back? (Something) Quays was their name? I remember seeing photos of site prep work and what looked like foundation work, then nothing. What ever happened to those?
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Welcome back? ha, ha, ha. First time to this thread.
Yeh, I don't know about this. This design.
It's great that London's skyline is growing the way it's been, but has anybody considered going back to Art-Deco? In some places, the Art-Deco skyscraper was coming back. There're a couple of examples in NYC, from the past 15 yrs., which are pretty convincing. After all, there are a lot of smaller Art-Deco bldgs around London.
Thats a great idea. Glass Skypscrapers make cities feel indentical. Art Deco highrises in London would create more density while at the same time preserve the older feeling of the city. I'd like to see some Art Deco towers even in the West End.
That's some serious construction going on along Tottenham Court Road. Anyone have renders for those buildings?
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Dude, welcome back to the forum, it's very well under construction.
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