The Cheesegrater tower starts...

[Crispy]

These stupid nicknames are all a bit much now

Anyway, this one's a stunna, if you ask me. Designed by Richard Rogers, the front facade will lean back to preserve a protected view of St. Pauls.

There will be a large covered public space at ground floor level.

The rear facade will be in multiple colours with all the lifts visible going up and down.

They did nearly all the demolition and foundation works several years ago, but then the project got put on hold. Just this year, it's started back up again and workers are on site. This one should race up, as it has no concrete core, just a steel frame.

 

[bromley]

I like it, not sure about stunna though as it's a bit plain, not that that is a bad thing!

How high will it be? Similarly to the pinnacle, wasn't this one reduced?

 

[Crispy]

I think it's always been the same height - 225m

Here's a comparison (from skyscraperpage.com)

 

[kyser_soze]

Steel framed? No concrete core? Wasn't there a famous pair of buildings in New York built along similar lines?

I like it - altho it'd be nice if Mr Rogers built something without exposed elevators...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm so fucking bored of buildings made from steel and glass.

 

[TitanSound]

Nice!

 

[DotCommunist]

you can't turn the building up to 11 if it is built from stone.

 

[Streathamite]

Now that's what a skyscraper should be like!

 

[strung out]

hmmmmm...

 

[Onket]

I'm so fucking bored of buildings made from steel and glass.

Yep. It'll look out of date by the time it's finished.

 

[1927]

Steel framed? No concrete core? Wasn't there a famous pair of buildings in New York built along similar lines?

No!

 

[xes]

I'm so fucking bored of buildings made from steel and glass.

papermache and wire mesh FTW!!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

papermache and wire mesh FTW!!

Bricks and mortar ftw.

 

[Crispy]

Steel framed? No concrete core? Wasn't there a famous pair of buildings in New York built along similar lines?

There are hundreds of steel-framed skyscrapers out there, but very few with the particular design of the WTC towers. The cross-braced nature of the steel frame on this building makes it very resilient indeed, and the floor decks will provide little if any structural support.

 

[kyser_soze]

There are hundreds of steel-framed skyscrapers out there, but very few with the particular design of the WTC towers. The cross-braced nature of the steel frame on this building makes it very resilient indeed, and the floor decks will provide little if any structural support.

As an architectural professional, is it one of those areas your usually excellent sarcasm detector fails?

When this is finished I want someone to build a giant inflatable cheese, attach it to the service crane runnels and have it move up and down the building, showering those below in bits of yellow confetti.

 

[Crispy]

Yes, sarcasm detector fail
Put a smiley on it next time!

 

[bromley]

I think it's always been the same height - 225m

Here's a comparison (from skyscraperpage.com)

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Looks like the cheese grater has a cat flat.

 

[Lord Camomile]

One of my very early web usernames was 'Cheesegrater'.

I wonder if that was their inspiration.

 

[Onket]

Almost certainly.

 

[editor]

Unquestionably.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

"Once I built a tower to the sun, brick and rivet and lime.
Once I built a tower; now its done.
Buddy can you spare a dime."

 

[Streathamite]

I'm liking this more and more with every pic I see. elegant, streamlined, fits well, eyecatching (so to speak), YEAH!

 

[hipipol]

I rather like the old building on Bishopsgate that got ripped down for this
Had nice trees and a little stream in it

The one on the CU PLaza had Monte Pesche, Wi Carr and load of other firms I did biz with in it - it was dull but matched the CU building

 

[MysteryGuest]

Yep. It'll look out of date by the time it's finished.

Yes but buildings do look out of date sooner or later. Always.

 

[Onket]

Later is always better though, really.

 

[bi0boy]

Most of the cool stuff is going up in Asia nowadays, I think we're lagging behind a bit

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=3 <-cool skyscraper geek site.

 

[hipipol]

Most of the cool stuff is going up in Asia nowadays, I think we're lagging behind a bit

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=3 <-cool skyscraper geek site.

Ha ha _ ace that the Shanghai Finance centre looks like a bottle openr!!!

Yam Seng!!!!! (Chinese toast and drinking game - VERY good fun!!)

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Doesn't do much for me. Next to the elegant lines of the Gherkin, it just looks, well, a bit messy.

 

[Dan U]

Ha ha _ ace that the Shanghai Finance centre looks like a bottle openr!!!

Yam Seng!!!!! (Chinese toast and drinking game - VERY good fun!!)

The International Finance Centre in Hong Kong is f'ugly. It's like the Chinese took a look at Hong Kong Island and decided to build the biggest, most functional skyscraper but on Kowloon side so ner ner HK island. Status all the way.

 

[kyser_soze]

Yeah, but the IFC has that nice little frilly bit at the bottom.

Apart from the Shanghai Tower, there's nothing in that list that's especially inpriring, and some of them look like that weird po-mo phase some skyscrapers in NY went through during the 80s. like the AT&T building, for example: