Lime Street Square | City of London | 192m | 39 fl | Approved

[.Adam]

I'd love to see this silver paint the city is overrun with?

[gegloma01]

Excellent news.
I understand that an agreement with the City of London planning authorities has been reached to develop a 40 storeys skyscraper to replace the existing plain ugly low-rise buildings.
However, it seems that this new planned skyscraper falls into the sightline of St Pauls. I am therefore a little bit confused. Any clarification are welcome in that respect.

[bertyboy]

Originally Posted by gegloma01

Excellent news.
I understand that an agreement with the City of London planning authorities has been reached to develop a 40 storeys skyscraper to replace the existing plain ugly low-rise buildings.
However, it seems that this new planned skyscraper falls into the sightline of St Pauls. I am therefore a little bit confused. Any clarification are welcome in that respect.

Every tall building falls into a sightline of St. Pauls from somewhere. If we used this excuse every time, no buildings would go up in the City!

[Magnog]

we need some lights in the city, i.e buildings that light up beautiful, something like this, hope we get some lights !

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e_Towers_2.jpg

[gegloma01]

Location and massing in the City. Height set at 165m.

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[davidaiow]

Which sight-line must it avoid? Is there a map/site to see it?

[RobertWalpole]

Originally Posted by lumberjack

Apparently renders are coming out next week!!

KPF's work is quite nice, so this is promising. This is a nice tower they did in Italy.

[Grinili]

This is an interesting report I found which talk's about the site and gives some interesting data about it:

http://www.dracoproperty.com/52-54%2...l%20Street.pdf

[jdjones]

Originally Posted by Grinili

This is an interesting report I found which talk's about the site and gives some interesting data about it:

http://www.dracoproperty.com/52-54%2...l%20Street.pdf

Is that a conformed render on page 26 & 27? I thought they would redevelop the building next to it too ie the whole northern area of the 'block'.

[Octoman]

Originally Posted by jdjones

Is that a conformed render on page 26 & 27? I thought they would redevelop the building next to it too ie the whole northern area of the 'block'.

I hope not :

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[Taller London]

i like it but its not 40 floors
it would be nice to have a roof garden on top tho

[Magnog]

we need tall buildings in the city not mid rises.

[flare]

According to this http://www.hayesdavidson.com/LaL/lvmf2009flashmap/ it is in the sightline from St James park. http://www.singleaspect.org.uk/wp-co...auls_views.jpg has sightlines for St Pauls which don't include this site. What (/whose) policy is the Fleet St sight line?

[bertyboy]

Hmm, this thread needs a tweak to the subject, methinks! "10 fl"

[Core Rising]

Originally Posted by Grinili

This is an interesting report I found which talk's about the site and gives some interesting data about it:

http://www.dracoproperty.com/52-54%2...l%20Street.pdf

That PDF is dated February 2011. Looks like an old proposal. Still has some interesting information though.

Originally Posted by gothicform

average floor to floor height for such an office tower is actually 4.1 metres.

Is that including lobby’s, plant floors and architectural features into the average? 165 meters sounds about right when looking at the original proposal height for 100 Bishopsgate, but this site is much more constrained both in foot print and because of the sight line. I think whatever is proposed will be over the 170 meter mark because of this.

[gegloma01]

That rendering is just an old illustration ...

[Frankus Maximus]

Originally Posted by london lad

Lol only Delores could complain about a square with LLoyds, 122LH, The Gherkin and hopefully the Pinnacle popping into view shared with a 500 year old Church and call it a dark canyon.

The current buildings , built in the 1950's are nothing special and given the choice I think a 190m tower would trump them any time. The vast majority of buildings built in the City post war (including most proposals today) are stone framed and most are mundane and dire. Most of the decent Stone buildings are in conservation areas and listed so its not as if the City is about to be overrun by canyons of dark glass and silver paint any time soon.

+1

[gegloma01]

From fleet Street, this tower will be hidden by St Pauls itself.

[Black Cat]

Originally Posted by gegloma01

That rendering is just an old illustration ...

The rendering is included in a property sales document designed to illustrate to potential purchasers the form and scale of redevelopment currently possible. that's all - its simply a schematic prepared by KPF. If the new site owners have subsequently agreed (in principle) a 40 floor office building for the site with the City of London, then they have negotiated very well and significantly increased the development potential and value of the property. It may well be that because KPF were familiar with the site in c.2010m that this may be the reason why they were engaged to prepare a design for a 40 floor high rise.

[AlexsAmazingIpad]

I thought renders were supposed to be released this week? I hope that tiny glass box is not the "40floor" building