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Consultant Quantity Surveyors Association
High Rise Buildings in London
An Overview
Presentation by John Harvey
19 June 2015
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Timeline of tallest buildings in London Free-standingstructuresthathaveatsometimebeenthetalleststructureinLondon
Name Location YearsastallestHeightmetres/feet
Floors
WhiteTower TowerHill 1098–1310 27/90 N/A
OldStPaul'sCathedral[A] CityofLondon 1310–1666 150/493[B] N/A
SouthwarkCathedral Southwark 1666–1677 50/163 N/A
MonumenttotheGreatFireofLondon CityofLondon 1677–1683 62/202 N/A
StMary-le-Bow CityofLondon 1683–1710 72/236 N/A
StPaul'sCathedral CityofLondon 1710–1939 111/365 N/A
BatterseaPowerStation[C] KirtlingStreet,Battersea 1939–1950 113/370 10
CrystalPalacetransmittingstation[D] CrystalPalacePark 1950–1991 219/720 N/A
OneCanadaSquare CanaryWharf 1991–2010 235/771 50
ShardLondonBridge Southwark 2010— 306/1004 87
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We have always liked towers
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Centre Point
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Nat West Tower 8th highest in City
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HSBC HQ 8 Canada Square Sir Norman Foster was appointed as architect. Arup became structural engineers for the project and
Davis Langdon & Everest (now Davis Langdon) quantity surveyors.
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Barclays HQ 136 metres/447 feet 32 floors (intended to be 50 but scaled down after 9/11)
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Broadgate Tower 165 metres/541 feet
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Gherkin (St Mary Axe) 41 storeys 180 metres (591 ft)
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Walkie Talkie 20 Fenchurch Street 34-storey160 m (525 ft) tall, fifth-tallest in London
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Trellick Tower North Kensington 31 storey completed in 1972; 98 metres or 322 feet high (394 feet including the comms mast)
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Is this the future or is it here already?
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Can of Ham vision of the future skyline?
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How they will look
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Locations for next skyscrapers HighrisecurrentlyunderconstructioninLondon
NameHeightmetres/ft
FloorsYear(est.)
Notes
Newfoundland(London) 212/696 58 2018 CanaryWharf
100Bishopsgate 172/564 40 2018 CityofLondon
1Blackfriars 163/535 49 2018 1BlackfriarsRoad,piling
BaltimoreWharfTower 150/492 46 2016 Corecompleted,floorsrising
SouthBankTower 150/492 45 2015 Heightincreasefrom108mto150m.
1MerchantSquare 150/492 42 TallestbuildingintheCityofWestminster
ProvidenceTower 136/446 44 2015 FormerlyTheQuebecBuilding
SaffronSquare 134/440 44 2015 Croydon
OneTheElephant 124/406 37 2015 FormerlySt.Mary's
LotsRoadSouthTower 122/400 37
LexiconTower 116/380 36 2015 261CityRoad
2–12HighStreet,Stratford105/345 35 2016 CapitalTowers-SkyViewTower
OneAngelCourt 100/328 24 Refurbishmentof97mbuilding.
ThislistsbuildingsthatareunderconstructioninLondonandareplannedtorisetoatleast328feet(100m).
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Tallestunderconstruction,approvedandproposed
SelectionofbuildingsthatdominatetheLondonSkyline,includingsomestillunderconstructionoronhold.
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London's Skyline, Views and High Buildings
For the Greater London Authority
SDSTechnicalReportNineteen
August2002
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Quote from DEGW Report 2002 The Continental European approach to planning policy in general, and high buildings policy inparticular,hasbeenproactiveandplanningled;citystrategieshavebeendevelopedexpressingaclearpreferenceforparticularlocationsasappropriateforhighbuildings.
BycontrasttheapproachintheUKandLondonhastraditionallybeenmorereactive,withanabsenceof strategic policy in many cases and a reliance on the development control system to defineappropriatelocations.Byimplicationthishasresultedinfragmenteddecisionmakingandafocusoncontrol and preservation of the city character, with high building locations being determinedderivatively. InLondonthishasbeenexacerbatedbythepoliticalstructureof thecitywheremostplanningpowerandauthority is inthehandsofthe individualboroughs,with littlecoordinationofhighbuildingpolicyimplementationfromonetothenext.