The Cheesegrater tower starts...

[Cid]

Yeah, wouldn't say they're especially 'cool' at all... Just enormous.

 

[bi0boy]

These will be the Wolrd's tallest buildings in 2015: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=201

WTF is that at number 4

 

[Crispy]

These will be the Wolrd's tallest buildings in 2015: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=201

WTF is that at number 4

The Royal Mecca Clock Tower

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/341950-Tacky-Mohammed-Kitsch

Goto post #6

 

[Lord Camomile]

Jesus, the Shard isn't even as big as the Chrysler or the Empire State. I'm not really looking for too many more massive buildings in London, but kinda puts it in perspective

 

[kyser_soze]

There're some pictures of that Saudi monstrosity on the 'Muslim Tat' thread IIRC.

Some of these buildings remind me of the Pena Palace in Portgual:

It's like a prototype Las Vegas, and the interior is no better. There's also another one the name of which I can't remember that has the highest number of rooms of any European palace, nearly bankrupted the country during it's construction, and now about 2/3 of it is in disrepair because it's so hugely expensive to maintain.

 

[bromley]

These will be the Wolrd's tallest buildings in 2015: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=201

WTF is that at number 4

Number 3 looks like a plastic snake toy I had as a kid.

 

[Dan U]

i give you the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau - not my pic but i saw it in December, haven't downloaded my pics yet but it dominates the sky line from parts of the nice, old Portugese bit of the town.

 

[Crispy]

Holy shit.

 

[Dan U]

Holy shit.

Macau is full of wtf.

It's a Chinese Vegas. A day visit from Hong Kong was enough!

 

[kyser_soze]

On the Vegas scale, that rates about a Level 6 tacky. A full scale recreation of the Forbidden City complete with Imperial Retinue should be what they're aiming for, or maybe the European bit of the Bund in Shanghai.

 

[Crispy]

Laing O'Rourke have been appointed as contractors and work is underway.

Here's a snazzy video detailing the construction methods.

http://play.streamingvideoprovider....=Leadenhall%20Street%20Flash&skin=2&preview=1

 

[Garek]

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

Hmmm, I doubt that. It may be open to the public but it will still be a private space.

 

[Crispy]

Hmmm, I doubt that. It may be open to the public but it will still be a private space.

Indeed. Important distinction, thank you

 

[cybertect]

Laing O'Rourke have been appointed as contractors and work is underway.

Here's a snazzy video detailing the construction methods.

http://play.streamingvideoprovider....=Leadenhall%20Street%20Flash&skin=2&preview=1

I like the way they show the blue tower cranes, but no further progress on The Pinnacle while 122 Leadenhall is completed

 

[cybertect]

Hmmm, I doubt that. It may be open to the public but it will still be a private space.

'public realm' in modern parlance.

 

[g force]

The blue cranes are moving today for the first time in a few weeks! Admittedly not doing much by the looks it but they are moving

 

[Crispy]

Shit is ON. Expect this to absolutey fly up.


Untitled by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Where is it in relation to The Shard?

I'm looking out the window but don't know where to look

eta: I think I can see it if the building with an angle is the correct building, but it's slightly obscured by another tall building in front of it

 

[Crispy]

Where is it in relation to The Shard?

I'm looking out the window but don't know where to look

eta: I think I can see it if the building with an angle is the correct building, but it's slightly obscured by another tall building in front of it

It's only 8 meters tall, minnie

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's only 8 meters tall, minnie

8 metres?

 

[Crispy]

8 metres?

26 feet.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

26 feet.

oh, you mean it's currently only 26 feets

I've decided I can no longer see it from my window

 

[Stigmata]

It doesn't look like a cheesegrater, it looks like a big doorstop.

 

[London_Calling]

It looks like another corporate cock-waving exercise to me.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It looks like another corporate cock-waving exercise to me.

it's a wedgie

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I enjoyed that 'snazzy video' a lot. It looks like it will be finished ahead of time.

"Once I built a tower, to the sun, brick and rivet and lime.
Once I built a tower, now it's done.
Buddy can you lend a dime?"

 

[hipipol]

there was an interesting piece on Alphaville about the correlation between the construction of tall buildings and economic collapse
I wonder who will actually occupy these vast spaces? The Empire State had to be broken down into loads of tiny offices as its completion coincided with the Great Depression
Worth noting that Canary Wharf have bought the Timber Wharf space to its direct east and seems to be palnning a few more mega towers.....
Hubris
The curse of the ancient Greek Gofds seems to still be running wild in speculative building still.....

 

[tim]

It looks like another corporate cock-waving exercise to me.

For the time being it's just an emasculated stump!

 

[Kanda]

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

Tell me about it. Or a building without some fucked up heated ceilings, or where bits for the building take 3 months to come from far abroad... I've been in this building 3 years and it's a piece of shit In the summer, one of the glass panels on the external lift shaft literally popped out and smashed to bits on Broadwick Street...!

 

[Yossarian]

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.

IFC is Hong Kong side but yep, it looks boring as fuck next to the Bank of China and HSBC buildings.