The Cheesegrater tower starts...

[Miss Caphat]

starts what?

 

[hipipol]

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

I can asure that the view from the 38th floor of the IFC2 is fucking ace mind you!!!!!

 

[hipipol]

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.

Suspect you are thinking about this building
Its the matching tower to the IFC2 just the other side of the ever shrinking harbour

 

[WouldBe]

What's the one on the Urban75.com page that looks like it's got curlers on top of it?

 

[Crispy]

What's the one on the Urban75.com page that looks like it's got curlers on top of it?

That's Strata at Elephant & Castle, still under construction in ed's photo.

 

[Dan U]

Suspect you are thinking about this building
Its the matching tower to the IFC2 just the other side of the ever shrinking harbour

thats the one, my mistake!

 

[ska invita]

the front facade will lean back to preserve a protected view of St. Pauls.

view from where, any idea?
Too little too late if you ask me - St Pauls has long been blocked in by shitier buildings.
Im sure if I was around at the time id have been against St Pauls going up too though

 

[Crispy]

This is coming along nicely.


OO7A1482 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr


OO7A1449 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr


OO7A1484 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr


OO7A1467 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr


OO7A1523 by Lumberjack_London, on Flickr[/QUOTE]

 

[kabbes]

I have to walk up Leadenhall Street on at least a weekly basis. It used to be a nice walk. Now it's constant building works. And when these buildings are all done, it'll be all be shadow and wind.

London streets aren't broad enough to cope with these megastructures. You just end up feeling hemmed in. They can all fuck off.

 

[editor]

Some more photos.

http://www.urban75.org/blog/photos-...scraper-topped-out-and-due-to-open-next-year/

 

[Crispy]

I love this one. Best looking skyscraper in London, IMO. Rogers does this sort of thing very well indeed

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh, is that what it is

Saw it the other day and couldn't remember what it was supposed to be

 

[Onket]

I have to walk up Leadenhall Street on at least a weekly basis. It used to be a nice walk. Now it's constant building works. And when these buildings are all done, it'll be all be shadow and wind.

London streets aren't broad enough to cope with these megastructures. You just end up feeling hemmed in. They can all fuck off.

I worked in 'The City' from 2000 to 2006 and the place was a constant building site. I don't miss it.

 

[kabbes]

I was in New York on Monday and Tuesday. It reminded me of how it has to work if you have tall buildings -- massively wide roads and massively wide pavements. In New York, it's fantastic. In London, it's a fucking disaster.

 

[Winot]

I was in New York on Monday and Tuesday. It reminded me of how it has to work if you have tall buildings -- massively wide roads and massively wide pavements. In New York, it's fantastic. In London, it's a fucking disaster.

Yes, a friend once commented on visiting NYC that it was as if they had increased the font size.

 

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