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The 2000s saw the beginnings of a boom in skyscraper building, mostly in the City of London and Canary Wharf. Since 2012, the tallest building in London has been The Shard at London Bridge , which was topped out at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft).
20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed "The Walkie-Talkie" because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a walkie-talkie handset. [4]
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of September 2024, there are 176 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 24 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...
City of London: Skyscraper 51.5145°N. 0.0829°W. Tallest building in the City of London. Crimond Royal Naval Wireless Telegraphy Station, Large Mast: 274.3 m (900 ft) 1943: communication: Crimond, Aberdeenshire: guyed steel lattice mast
The town has since witnessed a boom in the construction of high rise apartments, such as IYLO and Altitude 25, a former brownfield site. For 38 years, the tallest building in Croydon was the No. 1 Croydon (formerly the NLA Tower), a high-rise office block, which was completed in 1970, until 2009, when Altitude 25, a residential high-rise ...
Tower 42, commonly known as the NatWest Tower, is a 183-metre-tall (600 ft) skyscraper in the City of London. It is the sixth-tallest tower in the City of London and the 19th-tallest in London overall. [2] Its original name was the National Westminster Tower, having been built to house NatWest's international headquarters.
St George Wharf Tower, also known as the Vauxhall Tower, is a residential skyscraper in Vauxhall, London, and part of the St George Wharf development. At 181 metres (594 ft) tall with 50 storeys, it is the 20th-tallest building in London and was the tallest residential building [a] in the United Kingdom on its completion.
It stands 230 metres (755 ft) tall [4] including its 28-metre (92 ft) mast making it the second tallest building in the City of London financial district [5] and the fifth tallest in Greater London and the United Kingdom, after the Shard in Southwark and One Canada Square at Canary Wharf. 110 Bishopsgate is located on Bishopsgate and is ...