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New renderings commissioned by the City of London paint a future portrait of the Square Mile's skyline, which is set to be utterly transformed by several glassy skyscrapers. Pushing the clock back eight years, the revealing images portray a new cityscape dominated by some of Europe's tallest buildings, including Eric Parry Architects' 290-metre-tall 1 Undershaft.
The London financial district is poised to receive at least 13 towers, some of which are already under construction. The eastern section of the Square Mile is where most of the fledgling cluster is emerging. PLP's under-construction 150 Bishopsgate is joining the topped-out Scalpel by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Another of PLP's additions, the 62-storey TwentyTwo, will be the second-tallest building in the area.
Six of the 13 new towers — including 1 Undershaft, the tallest of the bunch — will contain free public viewing platforms, giving visitors multiple enlightening vantage points of the City's reshaped identity.
"The City's occupier base is becoming more dynamic, with SMEs and media companies choosing the Square Mile as their home," said Chris Hayward, chair of the planning committee at the City of London Corporation. "I am particularly proud that we are able to make available economically inclusive spaces with free public viewing galleries in City skyscrapers."
Hayward says he expects the next 30 years will deliver office space for up to 100,000 extra City workers. And there's more on the way that the renderings do not express — 100 Leadenhall, SOM's proposed successor to the Cheesegrater, has yet to be submitted to planning.
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