20 Fenchurch Street (AKA The Walkie Talkie)

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Nix said:
The Gherkin is a perfect example actually. Same location (five minute walk) and although it's a tremendously ugly building, it's become a bit of an icon now.

Someone just mentioned about more space on the upper floors and it made me envision the argument that the building perfectly embodies capitalist classism.
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The gherkin looks alright IMO... though I guess is the opposite to the walkie talkie in that the gherkin uses floor space very inefficiently by being both round(ish) and progressively narrower

still it looks good and has a nice bar at the top
 
I don't mind it. The blinds are a result of the reflection melting that Jaguar. The garden up top is phenomenal and offers excellent views. It might not be prettiest building but it's far from ugly. What baffles me more is that the architect who designed it also did a building in Vegas which had exactly the same problem, burning swimmers and melting cups, seems he didn't learn anything from that.

I agree with Caged, Strata is London's ugliest building for me, and it's a cop out too, the three wind turbines in the top never work and were installed purely to bring the building in to a lower tax bracket.
 
Skeeter said:
Basically the opposite to the Leadenhall Building (Cheese Grater) which tapers to a point in what I can only assume is a retarded attempt to make a building as small and useless as possible.

But personally I like that all Londons new tall buildings are interesting.
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they have to be to get planning permission - tall buildings were generally frowned upon in London and historically not feasible but are now due to different building techniques.... John Prescott allowed permission for a few as deputy PM - but they had to have unique designs

IIRC the cheese grater is that shape to not impact too much on the view of St Paul's from fleet street.... it does seem that protecting that part of the skyline is deemed important in the City...
 
dowie said:
they have to be to get planning permission - tall buildings were generally frowned upon in London and historically not feasible but are now due to different building techniques.... John Prescott allowed permission for a few as deputy PM - but they had to have unique designs

IIRC the cheese grater is that shape to not impact too much on the view of St Paul's from fleet street.... it does seem that protecting that part of the skyline is deemed important in the City...
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Cheese grater is that shape due to a protected view of St. Pauls from some pub I think :p
 
If you line it up right (from around Aldgate station area) you can make it look like the Cheese Grater is the support tower to the Gherkin rocket ship :p
 
It's a hell of a lot nicer than those brutalist concrete pieces of trash littered around the capital like some sort of 60s design plague.
 
It is absolutely fine. Unless there is a safety concern it shouldn't even be questioned.

Why not start a poll? We could vote for a different building every week and then see the overall results.
 
It looks nicer than the Pinnacle that has been shelved, thankfully.

At least it's interesting unlike Euston Tower or Millbank. Or utterly devoid of any merit at all like that abortion at Vauxhall.
 
Hideous monstrosity. Looks like one of our notoriously carp home builders put it up since they seem to also have a hate for having straight lines or true walls. Whoever granted that planning permission should be stripped of office.
 
thenewoc said:
Hideous monstrosity. Looks like one of our notoriously carp home builders put it up since they seem to also have a hate for having straight lines or true walls. Whoever granted that planning permission should be stripped of office.
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He was, back in 2007... he's now in the House of Lords.
 
London has never had a decent looking building, and the skyline is laughable for such a large and important city. Miles and miles behind Manhattan.
 
I actually like it and prefer it to Leadenhall Building (Aka the Cheesegrater), I like the fact it is bigger up top which is a far more efficient use of space than the other new buildings going up which all seem to taper.

The inside of the building is also pretty nice and well thought out compared to some of the other buildings in the area.
 
Leave it, but revoke the listed status from Trellick Tower and tear that ugly thing down. As well as all the other high rise flats dotted around London.

Horrible buildings.
 
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