^^ I know what you mean :)
I think that if it wasn't for that pristine cladding, this thing could be a real eyesore.

When are they going to put the final pieces of cladding on the exterior?
It just doesn't look finished without them.
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All in good time... I hope.

Its a bit late now, they've taken the scafolding down lol

which cladding ??? the weird grey things..... plz leave it offffffffff

I think they may add the remaining cladding using the window cleaning 'platform'.

this building is really ugly and really nice at the same time

If there was a 'like' button, I would have used it on this. Sums it up brilliantly! Still love this tower though, works fantastically in the photos with Broadgate. Claddings wonderful as well, congratulations London.

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It looks like a supertall in that picture ^^^

Yes. It looks amazing, great photo!

Amazing! :drool:

Somehow I'm finding the heron extremely boring!

You're not alone. Don't get me wrong, as piece of quality build it is second to none. However, as a piece of architecture I'm just still not convinced and if I'm honest it's to do with the soar factor which, even though it's supposed to have it's simply too short to give the effect. This would have looked better at 800ft to the roof or something. As for the cladding, well, I just don't know yet.

Its a good filler, makes the CoL skyline more broad. and filled

Its a good filler, makes the CoL skyline more broad. and filled

Comeon its not a filler is beautiful it looks diffirent from every side. I think its better then tower 42 but the Gherkin is amazing. Its 202m high tallest building in the city a filler?????

It just doesn't look that tall and that's because (and I know this is subjective) it isn't. The cladding and the step design on such a short skyscraper doesn't give the soar in the same way a taller one would of the same design. It's all personal opinion of course, but most cities this building would be a 'foothill' to taller ones. Even when you see Pinnacle and Shard which are average in global terms nowadays in height, they make heron look short. I'm just not convinced the best result has been achieved for the plot. But there will be others that like this, it just doesn't look quite as 'clean' in its execution as the renders had me believe. I do think another 200ft would've done wonders for it given the design is all about 'soar'.

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I love it, looks really nice!

chest's pictures are superb as always :)

I really like this tower, but I think I'll like it even more once Pinnacle goes up. It should create some harmony in the cluster.

Beautiful tower.

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Finishing touches:

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Great pictures guys :cheers:

The entrance seems really good. :cheers2:

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From fellow member leytonstonia's blog.



McDermott Will & Emery confirmed as Heron Tower's first tenant as Landmark Plc and Sushi Samba also take space

Following the news that Heron International has received planning permission for its mixed use scheme, Heron Plaza, the London based developer has finally confirmed that international law firm McDermott Will & Emery (MWE) will be the first tenant in the City's tallest building, the 46-storey Heron Tower at 110 Bishopsgate, EC2. The 230m tall development, penned by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) is built around the innovative three-floor village concept with the 36 office floors formed of 10 three-floor villages and one six-floor village that provide a total of 442,928 sq ft Grade A office space.

The US law firm has taken 24,945 sq ft on the 8th and 9th floors of the landmark development, part of village three and will pay £55.00 per sq ft for the Grade A space, the highest rents seen in the City since prior to the global credit crisis. MWE has already appointed KKS Strategy as their interior architect and is expected to move into the building by the end of the first quarter, once main contractor Skanska has finished construction. The Chicago based law firm previously occupied 35,382 sq ft across five floors at nearby 7 Bishopsgate, which is currently undergoing major refurbishment.

Boutique serviced office provider, Landmark Plc has also been confirmed as having taken village six within the new tower, totalling 36,926 sq ft across floors 17 to 19. The firm currently has four prestigious sites in the City, three of which are Grade II listed and the other being the recently redeveloped, 125 Old Broad Street, where Landmark leases the 6th and 7th floors.

The remaining office space in the Heron Tower is expected to be let village by village or floor by floor to various international firms with the rental values that Heron can achieve for the top floors set to provide a clear indication of the strength of the City office market as prime rents are expected to push past £62.50 psf. The open plan office space within the tower is seen as particularly flexible for potential occupiers given that all internal services including 10 high speed double deck lifts have been located at the south side of the building.

Confirming the international appeal of both the Heron Tower and the City of London that Gerald Ronson, Heron's Chief Executive is so keen to promote, the New York based group, Sushi Samba, which fuses together Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian cuisine, music and design will also open a branch of its very much in vogue restaurant concept across the top three levels of the Heron Tower, comprising 13,423 sq ft as well as an impressive 3,143 sq ft of roof terrace space. Two dedicated high speed scenic lifts at street level will whisk those looking to dine 175m above the City of London to the 39th floor from the dedicated restaurant entrance that fronts directly onto Bishopsgate.

Heron International has also stated that renowned restaurant operator Drake Morgan, who already run four sites across London including both the Alchemist and the Folly in the square mile, has taken 5,770 sq ft of space on the ground floor. The privately owned firm will open a 250-cover restaurant complete with two bars towards the end of May, which will be known as 'The Drift'.

http://www.leytonstonia.com/2011/02/mcdermott-will-emery-confirmed-as-heron.html

Heron Tower in City of London Is One-Fifth Leased, Owner Says

The Heron Tower, the tallest office building in the City of London financial district, is more than 20 percent leased after four tenants signed contracts, developer Heron International Ltd. said.

Landmark Plc, the London-based serviced office firm, took the largest amount space with 37,000 square feet (3,400 square meters), followed by Chicago-based law firm McDermott, Will & Emery with 25,000 square feet in the 461,000 square-foot skyscraper, Heron International said today in a statement. The other two leases were taken by restaurant and bar operators.

“We are very encouraged by the level of interest in the building and look forward to announcing further lettings in due course,” said Jonathan Goldstein, Heron International’s deputy chief executive.

The City of London is facing a shortage of prime office space after projects were postponed following the onset of the financial crisis. Land Securities Group Plc last month began work on the stalled tower known as the Walkie Talkie, which it is developing with Canary Wharf Group Plc. Also in January, British Land Co. restarted construction on the building known as the Cheesegrater in a joint venture with Oxford Properties Group Inc.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-01/heron-tower-in-city-of-london-is-one-fifth-leased-owner-says.html

Good news :cheers:

oh, they snuck the final diagonal 'braces' on at the very top and hardly anyone noticed... very glad to see that bit finished off.

see 3 pages back and then 2 pages back.

Nice to hear good news and also great photos! I am curious how it's going to look like inside. We'll see in a while :)

There were some pictures of the inside posted a couple of months back I think. I do seem to remember it looked quite futuristic!

I think you mean the leadenhall thats looks more futuristic.

This is one seemed futuristic inside from what I remember.

I call it modern but not futuristic.

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I call it modern but not futuristic.

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I agree with your comment re the foyer dutchsnookerfan, but I think they were referring to some publicity shots of office floor space released some time back.

Sorry i cant place another render of the interior look at the site of heron you will see it has the same style. So modernistic to

Sorry i cant place another render of the interior look at the site of heron you will see it has the same style. So modernistic to

We're not talking about renders, there were real shots from the office levels a few months back.

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Not futuristic to its modern.

Those ceilings seem to be too low.

Not futuristic to its modern.

We've got your opinion but don't make it an absolute truth. :okay:

This one is due to open pretty soon, they are really making the final touches.

Those ceilings seem to be too low.

Those photos are just of the marketing suite set up for potential tennants, the normal floor height will be the usual 4m or so like all office blocks in London.

From the UK forum

some funky lighting... which disappears if you are not looking straight on at the recess, quite cunning

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O.o whats happening there. In the evening.....

I'm guessing that will go all the way up the side of the building. Combined with the LEDs on the south side, it will give Heron a great lighting scheme at night. :cheers:

Like the lights.

Those lights remind me of a building here in Sacramento. There's a corner of the building fitted with blue neon lights going all the way to the spire. Looks great at night, and I'm sure it'll look great on Heron. They might even do schemed lighting for events and holidays, like red and green around Christmas. That'd look great.

At this rate it looks like Heron could have a better night-time lighting scheme than the Gherkin!

I'm starting to think the crown of Tower 42 could use a redesign in order to fit in better. The rest of it is still good to me, they just need to ditch that dark gloomy looking crown for something more attractive, something that looks better together with Heron and 30 St. Mary Axe.

amazing!!

this tower fits central london VERY WELL. great project!

Can't wait for the tenants to move in. :cheers2:

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Heron Tower, London - 01 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/champnet/5449164988/) by champnet (http://www.flickr.com/people/champnet/), on Flickr

Almost done now! :cheers2:

When is the official opening?

by Medenine.

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this thing looks SO much taller than 230m, i love it!

nice addition to London's skyline.

Some night shots of the lighting from last night with the lighting scheme sorry not great quality ...was just a quick snap from my iphone on the way home!

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this thing looks SO much taller than 230m, i love it!

It really doesn't. I don't really understand it. This is the building I've seen pretty much every weekday from start to completion

Even something like the HSBC tower seems so much taller in real life.

At 202m and 200m they should appear the same.

It really doesn't. I don't really understand it. This is the building I've seen pretty much every weekday from start to completion

Even something like the HSBC tower seems so much taller in real life.

At 202m and 200m they should appear the same.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/5449164988_7027b4c554_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/champnet/5449164988/)
Heron Tower, London - 01 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/champnet/5449164988/) by champnet (http://www.flickr.com/people/champnet/), on Flickr

It depends if you look at the left side it looks small and the right side it looks huge due to the window sizes.

It depends if you look at the left side it looks small and the right side it looks huge due to the window sizes.

It looks taller in photos though, especially a distorted one like that.

Unlike say the Shard where you lose the magnitude of the size of the base in photos, hence taller in real life.

edit: I should add, this is only the case when looking at it from the base.

Angles like this (or ones from a distance) have no such problem.

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Remember, unlike 1 Canada Square, Heron Tower peters out, the floor plate reduce in volume at the upper section. There is massive height different from first step in to the top of the spire. Personally I’d say the tower looks tallest when viewed from the West.

Up up up go go go, oh no. :)

Is the tower crane still up? The tower looks almost completed to me. :)

Thats a photo from august the tower crane is already down since october.

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Heron Way (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clsampy/5474768063/) by clsampy (http://www.flickr.com/people/clsampy/), on Flickr

^^

That will be an incredible view in 4yrs time, as the 150m Heron Plaza and 165m Bishopsgate tower will stand either side of the Heron Tower...

Stunning picture!

That's a brilliant picture!

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Good lord, that picture is 100% stunning! I find KPF buildings look bet at night. They know how to use interior lighting so well.

I really like this building :banana:

Well, I'm impressed. This is art.

Good lord, that picture is 100% stunning! I find KPF buildings look bet at night. They know how to use interior lighting so well.

It's not them, its the lighting consultants they obviously have good working relationships with.

It's not them, its the lighting consultants they obviously have good working relationships with.

They do however design the placement of windows, which was more along the lines of what I was talking about. Transparency in certain locations and strong rectangles in others. But I see what you mean, and I totally agree.

Heron Tower is beautiful - the landmark of The City. :)

Very nice. :)

Nice building. really like the design. cant wait to see its lighting scheme when finished.

This is a good fit for London, I hope that these sized skyscrapers keep being added, they are being well done and fit in well. Congrats

THIS IS a nice tower. congratulations

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^^ I love the placement of his signature! :lol:

^ gosh, for a minute CraneEtc's picture looked like a render

Looking excellent. :)

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the spire looks like it has got bigger to me lol:lol:

Heron Tower from the ground up

Heron Tower might not be the tallest building in London but it's close. The Shard at London Bridge is already taller but it won't be completed until next year, when it will reach 310 metres in height. Until then, the title is still officially held by One Canada Square at Canary Wharf, at 230 metres, with the new £185 million office building of Heron Tower on Bishopsgate matching it at 230 metres with its steel spire (202 metres without).

Any building this tall is a dizzying, brilliant technical achievement. In days like these, when technology allows us to build any shape we like, and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (at 828 metres, the size of four Heron Towers stacked one on the other) is the yardstick, it's easy to be blasé. But just go and stand next to Heron Tower. It's very, very tall. When I was there, a small army of workers were still buzzing around its base, the double-decker lifts were zooming up and down the 46 storeys, ready for its completion at the end of this month.

Think of the laws of physics that a building this high defies; think of the installation of that soaring pinnacle at the summit, 230 metres above street level; think of the poor window cleaner! It would be churlish not to salute the achievement of the designers, engineers and builders. Skyscrapers like this are a thrill.

But while Heron Tower impresses in its statistics, it is the building's decent relationship with street level that I think makes it interesting and praiseworthy. The tower is part of a plan that will create a new square - the so-called Heron Plaza - by demolishing a dignified but unexceptional Thirties building next door to Heron Tower on Bishopsgate. Then another tall building, this time a hotel, will go up (designed by PLP Architects) creating the east range of the square. Bishopsgate needs this kind of release - it is an extremely busy thoroughfare, and a square here makes sense. This is an office building looking to the future of the city around it.

Heron Tower was conceived in 2002, and designed by the London office of Kohn Pedersen Fox, an American commercial architecture practice. Since then, the individuals in charge of the project have split off and formed another company, PLP, who will continue with further buildings for Heron in the area. But Heron Tower is the work of KPF for its client Gerald Ronson, whose instinct for continuing with development through economic downturns will pay off - there is high demand and a lack of good office space in the City right now.

Heron Tower is opportunistic in urban terms - there's no particular logic to having a tall building here beyond its proximity to Tower 42 and the Gherkin. So while it is tall, it doesn't command long vistas in the way an important high building would in, say, Paris or Barcelona. So I cycled around for an afternoon to try to find exactly where you could see it from.

The building has four sides, and the east and west are pretty much identical. You get these views from Houndsditch to the east (although most road traffic won't because the one-way system means they are facing away from it) and from Wormwood Street/London Wall to the west. These façades are not pulse-racing architecture. It looks like a building, as opposed to a pickled vegetable or fairground ride, and to my mind should be praised for that restraint. The façade is divided into modules of three floors, with simple shadow gaps between them. Rectangular windows are divided by brushed steel mullions.

This three-by-three module reaches nearly to the floor but on the east façade ends at ground level with a loading bay. On the west side, the building comes to ground in a rather grand, elegant entrance colonnade. Heron Tower is not trying to be tricky, just dignified and even a little bashful about its massive height.

Arriving from the south you don't get a view of the building up Bishopsgate until you clear the mid-rise Seventies building opposite Threadneedle Street. In future years, this approach will be further obscured by the massive (288 metre) Pinnacle Tower, also designed by KPF (and on ice at the moment). This southern façade of Heron Tower is the weakest, a dog's dinner of greenish glazing, grey steel, and the solar cells stuck to the windows that will generate some power for the building. While this façade is stepped in a kind of sawtooth arrangement, you don't see that from Bishopsgate, you just get a blank, inarticulate façade that has no base, no middle, no top. Just sheer glazing from floor to sky.

Behind this façade are the double-decker lifts that you can see going up and down, but I'm afraid it's only architects who think lifts are enough to "animate" a tedious glass façade. The rest of us would like articulation, ornament even, to relieve the boredom. The most expressive façade is the northern one, which consists of two giant silver ladders. These are the cross bracing, forming a vertical girder that is the structure of the tower. This bracing is en vogue, and particularly echoes the Broadgate Tower by SOM, the parallelogram-shaped building further north along Bishopsgate.

The best views of Heron Tower that I found are the glimpse available of the top of the tower from Liverpool Street, just popping up over the buildings on the south side of the street. The one perspective that it feels like the architects intended is the view up Bevis Marks/Duke Place, where you see the understated eastern façade obliquely, and get the full effect of the sawtooth glass of the south façade. Plenty of people, most of them in cars, will see this view first as they enter the city from Aldgate to the south-east.

While I think the building deals with the street pretty well, there is something missing. This is revealed by the cack-handed glass canopies jutting out of the north and west façades. They are made of glass and held together with elaborate but ugly steel, and just look like they've been bought off the shelf and added to the building as an afterthought. What a friend of mine would call "gob ons". I raise this just because it's a typical difficulty. Today, architects find it hard to find devices to move between the giant scale of the building and the human scale of the street.

But to focus on the ill-conceived canopies is to do the building a disservice. It is interesting to note in conclusion that this building contains about as much office space (442,928 sq ft) as the fat St Botolph's Building, at the other end of Houndsditch does (560,000 sq ft including retail). The relatively slim tower of Heron gets my vote and I think the future of the immediate surroundings will prove that smaller plot sizes make better cities. Heron Plaza will be a corporate, City of London-style paved plaza, but it will be generous, public and so on. Heron Tower is not an architectural work of genius but it understands that the street is a priority.

Maybe it's time we stopped worrying about the height and shape of office towers and, like Heron Tower, paid more attention to the ground.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23930191-heron-tower-from-the-ground-up.do

Hmm, im still not sure about this building, lacking a bit in character i feel. Does look good in the pic above though (Bandy one)

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St Helens Swiss Heron (http://www.flickr.com/photos/torg22/5519966540/) by Torg22 (http://www.flickr.com/people/torg22/), on Flickr

In the reflexion :)

Is this thing done yet? Last I checked, opening of this tower was supposed to be in the first quarter of 2011, and it's now the end of March.

They are probably making the finishing touches.

Are all the led lamps already attached?

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New City offices in Heron Tower welcome first tenants

The first tenants have moved into the new City offices in the Heron Tower, the tallest building in the financial district of London. US law company McDermott, Will and Emery has moved onto floors eight and nine within the skyscraper, which is 46-storeys high.

According to City AM, the law firm has been said to have agreed to pay £55 per sq ft and will take up 25,000 sq ft of space in the new office building, which was completed last week. Meanwhile, floors 17-19 have already been pre-let to Landmark, while Drake and Morgan will run the ground floor bar and restaurant.

At the top of the Heron Tower, SushiSamba will be in charge of the sky bar and restaurant.

Chief executive of Heron International Gerald Ronson was reported by Property Week as saying: "New, world-class office developments play an important role in attracting international companies to the Square Mile, helping it to retain its status as the global financial capital."

The building - located on 110 Bishopgate - consists of 461,478 sq ft of space, with 442,928 sq ft of this comprising of City offices.

http://www.mellersh.co.uk/News.aspx?ArticleId=800478971

http://www.mellersh.co.uk/News.aspx?ArticleId=800478971

Completed, that is? :cheers:

Yeah, pretty much so.

Its been a long time coming, but its amazing how fast its been built!

Heron Tower reaches practical completion

City’s tallest building provides 440,000 sq ft of BREEAM Excellent office space

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Article posted: 01 Apr 2011

Heron International and Skanska announced this week that Heron Tower, the tallest building in the City of London, has reached practical completion. The Bishopsgate building reaches 230 metres into the skyline and provides 440,000 sq ft of commercial office space in the heart of the City of London, along with a restaurant and sky bar on levels 38-40.

Marketing will start in earnest following completion, but four lettings have already been secured. US law firm McDermott, Will & Emery, who have already moved in to the eight and nineth floors. Floors 17-19 have been pre-let to Landmark plc, the boutique provider of premium serviced offices, and will be the company’s flagship centre, opening in July.

Drake & Morgan will operate the ground floor bar and restaurant, which will open in June, trading as ‘The Drift’. SUSHISAMBA will operate the restaurant and sky bar at the top of the tower, opening late 2011 and offering an exciting blend of Japanese, Peruvian and Brazilian food. It will be open to the public and accessed by direct, scenic lifts from Bishopsgate. Sitting 175m above the City, there will be external terraces and spectacular views.

Commenting on Heron Tower’s completion, Gerald Ronson, Chief Executive of Heron International, said: “Heron Tower’s completion is a significant event not just for Heron but for the City of London as a whole. New, world class office developments play an important role in attracting international companies to the Square Mile, helping it to retain its status as the global financial capital. Heron Tower has taken more than 12 years from conception to completion but the results speak for themselves: this is a truly exceptional office development in one of the world’s best locations.”

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A time area closed.....

Í'm looking forward to decent pics from the interior and that fish tank. :D

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by mattomatto

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Í'm looking forward to decent pics from the interior and that fish tank. :D

I'm looking forward to see a picture of the fish tank too.

I'm looking forward to see a picture of the fish tank too.

Are you allowed to go inside the building if you don't work there?

Is that ugly white building in front of Heron Tower coming down anytime soon?

No thats on the other side. from an other street.

Are you allowed to go inside the building if you don't work there?

the fish tank is in the lobby, and the lobby of most buildings is not restricted.

by chest.

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It reminds me a little of the NY TImes tower. I like it.

Nice angle. Nice theres a movie at youtube to from there.

A really nice tower that helps bulk up the city skyline and due to be joined by even more towers soon :cheers: the last photo is especially good

Looking nice...:okay:

Just found this amazing shot on flikr from WP Wiles

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Still no shark? :D

What a nice entrance.

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The exposed mechanicals of the escalator are cool.

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Heron Tower is a candidate for the 2011 Gold Emporis Skyscraper Award.

The City’s Tallest Building: Inside The Heron Tower ("http://londonist.com/2011/04/the-citys-tallest-building-inside-the-heron-tower.php)


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The recently completed Heron Tower reaches 230 metres into the City sky. It stands at one of London’s most ancient junctions, a ‘strategic crossroads’ where the Roman Bishopsgate meets London Wall.

It will soon offer the capital’s highest public restaurant and bar, at least until competing towers are completed. We can confirm that the views are stunning.

Most of the building is given to office space. The business entrance is impressive. Polished marble floors, triple-height atrium and THAT fish tank.

You can’t have missed it if you’ve passed by on Bishopsgate. A 70,000 litre aquarium, with 27-cm-thick glass, set to contain 1,300 fish.

And that includes sharks. The architects are coy on the pricetag behind such a bauble, admitting it “wasn’t a small cost”.

Double-decker, transparent lifts whiz workers up the side of the building at ear-popping speed. Photovoltaic cells pepper the facade and create a hypnotic effect as you zoom past.

The office floor plates offer some of London’s most distracting views. Internal spaces are divided up into three-storey ‘villages‘, with a light-giving atrium running vertically through each trio.

The first tennants — McDermott, Will and Emery — have already moved in, and the building is 20% let.

But the top bits will excite most interest. Floors 38-40 will soon become London’s loftiest destination (at least until the Shard is complete).

The contract is with New York restaurant (and proponents of OTT web design) SushiSamba, who will divide the space into a South American restaurant, a Japanese restaurant and a bar area open till 3am.

Customers will access these altitudinal eateries via dedicated lifts on Bishopsgate.

Back outside, the area immediately to the North of the tower will be demolished in May to make way for a new plaza and a Four Seasons hotel — the first 6-star hotel in the City.

Those 3 storey 'villages' with an atrium in between turn the inside into a more dynamic place.

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any pictures of THAT fish tank?

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Very bulky. :cheers2:

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