Posted on 1/12/2016
To the occasional visitor, London seems in a constant state of flux, with clusters of tower cranes, raw concrete cliffs of freshly cast cores, city-block sized excavations and miles of hoardings, covered in glossy images of a fast-approaching future
Yet real progress is slow. The new Leadenhall Building - now undergoing a lengthy interior fit-out - took over 12 years from conception to completion.
Rogers Stirk Harbour's latest tower is an unmistakable presence on the City skyline. It was back in 2001 that the site's owners, British Land, set up a competition to transform a humdrum 1960s building into one of the m...