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    Skyscrapers in London

    As many of you have noticed, whether visitors or residents, that London is relatively short on big buildings, at least until very recently. I have been flicking through some of the proposed buildings that are either under construction and proposed. I think this is a good thing, about time there was more floorspace to bring the prices of space down and they look impressive! The London Bridge Tower is due to be constructed (307m) and I was looking at another proposed building, the Bishopsgate Tower at 308m. Will be cool if these two are built

    And there are several other buildings being proposed. There is another one called Ecotower which is proposed that would be 485m.

    It will be nice to see the skyline of London looking a little bigger
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    Of course, English Heritage are kicking up a fuss about these obscuring the London skyline, but I think they are a bunch of fuddy-duddy Luddite tw@ts
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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    • #3
      Bah!

      Europeans are not allowed to have massive skyscrappers

      That's only allowed in the New World and Asia
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        You've got an education coming, if you think the tall buildings will lower real estate prices in London.
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        • #5
          Skyscrappers f*cking rule!
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Asher
            Skyscrappers f*cking rule!
            Quoted for TRUTH!

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            • #7
              Yeah, scrap that tower of london - it just takes up too much valuable real estate.
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              • #8
                Skyscrappers f*cking rule!

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                • #9
                  Didn't Paris just put its bigger buildings in a single district away from most of the historical stuff?
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                  • #10
                    Provost, do you have any links to the artist's depictions of said skyscrapers in London? I would be really curious to check them out.
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                    • #11
                      Does London have regs like DC that bar buildings beyond a certain height? DC bans buildings higher than the monument; I can imagine that the equivelent is no buildings higher than Big Ben.
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                      • #12
                        I doubt it - they may he it for the close proximity of Big Ben, but not for the city - that would be some kind of rediciously.
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                        • #13
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                          • #14
                            It's about time London started building skyscrapers, what took them so long?

                            Though, I do have to say this, New York's city skyline does look dirty; With the new technology we have today, we can build cleaner looking skyscrapers and buildings. So London should end up looking cleaner than New York.
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                            • #15
                              I don't think they could get enough footprint space to have a solid skyline like NYC, which is not a bad thing.

                              I am curious as to what they are knocking down to get the property to build on.
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