The only way is up

Sam Cannon looks at plans to take the London skyline higher

Anyone who’s walked through London in the past year will notice cranes still continue to be a prominent feature of the London skyline, with different parts of the capital vying to create the next hot cluster of tall buildings.

In fact if you’ve visited the Building Centre in Store Street recently you will have seen the comprehensive 1:2000 scale model showing more than 85 square kilometers of London. The model shows more than 500 planning tall buildings, highlighting those yet to be built in white.

They appear in Docklands, in the City, around Paddington, and the Olympic Park, in fact, few parts of the capital seem to have escaped developers submitting plans for tall buildings.

Onwards and upwards

With recent high profile media coverage on the likes of Foster + Partners 305.3 meter tower ‘The Tulip’ obtaining planning permission in April becoming a common news story on our television screens and newspapers.

Tall buildings in London have been dominating the news, with The Guardian and others reporting that there will be 76 completed in 2019 alone, and a total of 541 planned.

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