New skyscrapers in London
Londonist reports on two new proposed skyscrapers - one at Fenchurch Street by LandSecs (replacing what I think is a fairly elegant if not world-beating 1960s highrise with a rather ugly Vinoly building shaped weirdly like a 1980s mobile phone - see picture) and another on the Isle of Dogs by Rowan Asset Management, developers of the nearby Glengall Bridge, which apparently will have a lot of 'affordable housing' in it. This also has a rather dubious shape by Sheppard Robson. It really is not pretty but also goes right against the development framework set out by the local authority so will need a lot of negotiation to get it through (hence the affordable housing sweetener, I would think).
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The replacement looks a bit rubbish (although I suppose it makes a good glass and steel accompaniment to the rather dull Plantation Place it'll be next to), although I haven't seen a non-thumbnail picture yet.
Regarding the image, I just get worried about an architect who is willing to let that comic an image go out as publicity material that is supposed to impress...