Went down to the city today - got a few snaps of various goings-on.. :)

51 Lime Street - rocketing up! - cladding next month!
http://static.flickr.com/49/158676942_ab5a09be26.jpg

14 Cornhill rising up like a phoenix from the inside of buildings..
http://static.flickr.com/55/158683630_fd9dd142f7.jpg

Broadgate Tower begins its journey to the sky - you can clearly see the Willis contruction from here..
http://static.flickr.com/60/158676938_c5fadeadba.jpg

Ropemaker building awaits action - should begin 2007 (i think)
http://static.flickr.com/57/158674615_7d90057f90.jpg

14 Cornhill rising up like a phoenix from the inside of buildings..
http://static.flickr.com/55/158683630_fd9dd142f7.jpg
What is this 14 Cornhill project?? Any info???

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1 Coleman Street
http://static.flickr.com/49/158685669_81fd17df35.jpg

Aldermanbury Square - nearly finished here, plenty of work goign on in this area though ;)
http://static.flickr.com/46/158685674_67926c0456.jpg

35 Basinghall Street - looks like 20 + storys - will need more info here!
http://static.flickr.com/76/158685670_74cb520e8a.jpg

Chiswell Street - no info??
http://static.flickr.com/60/158687419_6be1841df4.jpg

Pile driving very deep holes south end of City Road:
http://static.flickr.com/55/158685679_d9f2f3387d.jpg

What is this 14 Cornhill project?? Any info???

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No - am looking though

Thank you GiraffeMonger, very nice pics!

What is this 14 Cornhill project?? Any info???

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Details here: Click me! (http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=4416)

The Basinghall and Coleman ones can be watched on these webcams:
http://www.coleman-basinghall.com/

The Basinghall and Coleman ones can be watched on these webcams:
http://www.coleman-basinghall.com/

thanks for that! there are some great buildings in that area..

14 Cornhill looks exactly like the sort of project we need, i like these, like the south conolade at canary wharf.

Nice update btw giaraffemonger.

This is 14 cornhill
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/9797/4416fourteencornhillpic15di.jpg

And this is 35 basinghall
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/4973/35basinghall3ea.jpg

I like both of them.

Cool - quality builds if or not they are over 20 storys.. you have to admire the architechture..

14 Cornhill looks exactly like the sort of project we need, i like these, like the south conolade at canary wharf.

You really did take the words right outa my mouth there man, exactly what I was going to say. We need more buildings of 14 Cornhill's quality! And I bloody love that south colonnade building at CW!

Nice to see lots of other great projects happening in London besides skyscrapers. Good stuff!

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^ Couldn't agree more with the first point. 14 Cornhill's superb by the looks of it. Had no idea that was going up. Thanks for the photos :)

14 cornhill was built a long long time ago- they are just rebuilding the insides to make it suitable for modern office accommodation.

^^ Ah, that would explain it, I was getting ahead of myself, I should have known it looked far too prestigious and grand to be a ground level project going up in London these days...ah well, back to the glass and steel :(

I actually wondered when I first saw it whether it was some internal improvement or redevelopment as you don't see building renders like that anymore these days. Bit of a shame.

Yeah 14 Cornhill is lovely, but I'm pretty sure it's not a newly designed building, I think they've just redeveloped behind the facade which looks like it's from the 1920s or 1930s. Does anybody know whats goin on in the pic taken at the southern end of City Road, this plot had been vacant for ages.

Pile driving very deep holes south end of City Road:
http://static.flickr.com/55/158685679_d9f2f3387d.jpg

Anyone know what is going up here?

Anyone know what is going up here?

If this is the plot just up from finsbury square with a nice looking victorian building next door then im pretty sure they are building a new travelodge incoporating the victorian building next door.

http://www.travelodge.co.uk/press/article.php?id=92&PHPSESSID1=19cf0cb998b0c41d7f8bb3276160c39b

If this is the plot just up from finsbury square with a nice looking victorian building next door then im pretty sure they are building a new travelodge incoporating the victorian building next door.

Thanks for that - its certainly in the correct postition to be number one city road - no other details though - (yet)

Travelodge, I really hope the architecture isn't dire, it well could be

^ Couldn't agree more with the first point. 14 Cornhill's superb by the looks of it. Had no idea that was going up. Thanks for the photos :)

Ditto ditto! Is it a rebuild, a spared facade or a new building? If it was from scratch my lips would just fall off!

oh I just answered my own question by reading page 2 of this thread!

If this is the plot just up from finsbury square with a nice looking victorian building next door then im pretty sure they are building a new travelodge incoporating the victorian building next door.

Yeh, the Toronto-Dominion office, what a fab building! Hidden gem

Triton court btw

The building, famously known as the headquarters for Singer - the sewing machine manufacturer, will be converted into a 394-bedroom Travelodge hotel with a Bar Café and retail / A3 on the ground floor and basement.

The hotel is expected to open in 2007 and Travelodge will retain a 35- year lease on completion of the development. The £55 million investment is expected to create around one hundred and fifty new jobs. The development will be part new build and part conversion, sympathetically designed to take into account the nature of Lowndes House. The ground floor will include a number of retail outlet and A3 units.

- Lets see the plans.. we'll be the judge of that ;-)