The City of London has approved plans for its new tallest skyscraper, a 74-storey office tower that will be tied with the Shard as western Europe’s tallest building. https://on.ft.com/4gAK7dV
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About 22% reused. The nature of the building being replaced didn't help. Not defending this, but the City has never been a great environment & I worked there when there were still bombsites and derelict areas. It's always evolving.
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22% impressive...not. When the wind is up you can hardly walk down Bishopsgate near the Horizon 22 building. That zone has become a un-civil wind tunnel. Greed, greed, greed, toxic environment and no blue sky 🙁.
With office space vacancy rates in London still higher than pre-pandemic rates I can't help thinking this is as a bit of a vanity project - unless there are also plans to do repurpose some of the existing office space.
Sure, that's just what the world needs, another tall building. The people on earth are, ill, hungry and being slowly cooked alive by fossil fuels. But TAKE HEART, behold London has another wasteful, polluting, profitable project. Splendid.
Having zero new office buildings is less polluting. Plenty vacant office space since Covid. I dont give an eff about the elites profit margin. I can tell that this is difficult for some people to understand.
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This will replace a very dull office block from the 90s and no doubt will suffer a similar fate in due course.
Constant change and renewal is life.
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But…
I don’t want them to build it.
Just …. why???
With so much empty office space …
And then imagine how many houses and low-rise flats those builders could build instead.
Aren’t there enough empty offices at the top of skyscrapers in London already?
I'll sleep better tonight.
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