One Undershaft

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The 90,000 square metre structure, which will replace the Aviva Building, will be able to accommodate 10,000 people and will have 1,500 bicycle spaces as well as new shower and changing facilities.
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10,000 people in a single building :eek: (That not far of the same amount of people that live in the whole of my local town)

How do they deal with so much traffic going in & out of a single building like this :confused:
 
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Admiral Huddy said:
I walk past that site every day.

Useless fact, the reason for the slant on the cheese grater and the other nearby scrappers is so that when looking at St. Paul's from Fleet St. there's nothing in background to spoil the view. Apparently, there are 3 positions where this is the case. Another is from the south bank looking over from millennium bridge.

Walkie talkie building is a an eye sore but you can visit the roof garden for free.
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https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ser...eritage-and-design/Pages/protected-views.aspx
 
Yeah but there's a lot of pride attached to a central location that companies want.

I'd like to see home working becoming the norm rather than seen as a perk, with appropriate funds being made available for people to create a good home working environment in lieu of having to rent as much office space.
 
So effectively we'll have the Pinnacle and the UnderShaft, two of the city's tallest building bang on next to each other creating two towers. .. Interesting.
 
chaparral said:
10,000 people in a single building :eek: (That not far of the same amount of people that live in the whole of my local town)

How do they deal with so much traffic going in & out of a single building like this :confused:
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It isn't just in and out, it is also up and down.

The limiting factor in building height isn't actually the structural engineering, it is the internal transport. As the number of floors increase, the proportion of the area of each floor that is taken up by lift-shafts increases until there is no longer any "Working" space.

The really tall buildings seem to try to get round this limit by simply not having very much on the upper floors by tapering them to a point

(Think multi stage rocket. Instead of having a single very tall building, you put several successively narrower buildings on top of one another)
 
Admiral Huddy said:
I would like to see more investment in outer towns and cities for local jobs rather than have everything in one place. Commuting is just going to get worse as these "super cities" expand.
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Location is still important - they can't even fill the shard despite it only being the other side of the river yet the Walkie Talkie was full of tenants right away - lots of firms want to be located within the City
 
Orionaut said:
It isn't just in and out, it is also up and down.

The limiting factor in building height isn't actually the structural engineering, it is the internal transport. As the number of floors increase, the proportion of the area of each floor that is taken up by lift-shafts increases until there is no longer any "Working" space.

The really tall buildings seem to try to get round this limit by simply not having very much on the upper floors by tapering them to a point

(Think multi stage rocket. Instead of having a single very tall building, you put several successively narrower buildings on top of one another)
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This gets mitigated by express elevators that take you to sky lobbies that serve a subset of floors, and stuff like double-deck cars.
 
Caged said:
This gets mitigated by express elevators that take you to sky lobbies that serve a subset of floors, and stuff like double-deck cars.
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And also work being done on lifts that can overtake by switching shafts (Turbo-lifts if you like ;) )

I can imagine a really tall buildings having lifts that run more like trains. (IE to a timetable)
 
The work from home revolution will happen just in time for us to realise all our new builds are too small for it to be viable.
 
StriderX said:
Or you know...work from home and don't bother wasting billions.
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I wonder, realistically, what percentage of jobs could actually be done from home?

Probably not that many really, especially when you consider not that many people would actually be self disciplined enough to do it.

(Also, I met a "Home worker" once. It seems that it is actually a sort of house arrest, I am not sure how it was monitored but she was only allowed away from her "Workspace" for so many minutes/hour. That + being "Home Alone" made it seem to me to be akin to being condemned to the 9th circle of Hell! I cant imagine why it doesn't catch on! :p )
 
Digital age doesn't mean that you don't need desk space to have multiple screens, reading material etc. If I had a home office it would need to be a dedicated room so that I can close the door on it all when I 'leave' work.
 
Orionaut said:
(Also, I met a "Home worker" once. It seems that it is actually a sort of house arrest, I am not sure how it was monitored but she was only allowed away from her "Workspace" for so many minutes/hour. That + being "Home Alone" made it seem to me to be akin to being condemned to the 9th circle of Hell! I cant imagine why it doesn't catch on! :p )
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That sounds pretty unusual for working from home. Most jobs that involve working from home require you to do your job but I have never known "workspaces" to be monitored.

That said, I don't think I would want to work from home on a full time basis myself, I would miss the social contact. I work from home one day a week usually.
 
Two days a week from home would make a huge difference to congestion though. You'd just hope the train companies would be as flexible with their ticketing.
 
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