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Old Posted Aug 14, 2008, 9:13 AM
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This project is on hold now, due to the economic downturn.
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What?!? No way! That's ridiculous. This tower has already taken eons to get from design and planning phase to to point where it is ready to be built....I remember first seeing this tower back in 2003. What a shame.
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Oh crap, I think you are correct:

London is sort of like Los Angeles, it takes for freaking ever to get something through the approval and planning pipeline, and when the time finally comes to put a shovel in the ground, the economy turns sour.

British Land May Delay `Cheesegrater' Tower to 2012 (Update1)

By Peter Woodifield

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- British Land Co., London's biggest developer, may delay building the tower known as the Cheesegrater by at least a year as demand for office space falls, the company said as it announced a loss in the fiscal first quarter.

The 600,000-square-foot (55,740-square-meter) Leadenhall Building, a 47-story tower designed by Richard Rogers in London's main financial district, may now open in 2012 or later, Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester said today on a conference call. Construction was due to begin next year.

The Cheesegrater is the second skyscraper in three months to be put on hold as layoffs in the City of London limit demand for space, prompting rents to fall. The Centre for Economics and Business Research said in June that London may lose 19,000 finance jobs by the end of 2009. The layoffs come as banks and financial companies grapple with losses and writedowns of more than $500 billion arising from the subprime mortgage crisis.

``We want premium rents for a premium building,'' said Hester. ``By waiting a little longer rents will have recovered more.''

British Land, which yesterday fell the most in 16 years in London trading, were unchanged at 722 pence in London, for a market value of 3.7 billion pounds ($6.9 billion). The shares are down 40 percent in the last 12 months.
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Old Posted Aug 17, 2008, 5:07 PM
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Dang, that's too bad. It was always an uphill battle due to the anti-skyscraper zeitgeist there. Just think, if the approval process had been a year faster, this thing would be on its way to the heavens.
     
     
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Old Posted Aug 17, 2008, 5:52 PM
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Damn. And here I was planning to get construction pics of this when I visit London in May. What a buzzkill.
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Old Posted Aug 19, 2008, 10:36 AM
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Damn. And here I was planning to get construction pics of this when I visit London in May. What a buzzkill.
Well, Heron Tower is definitely going up, and should have risen a few floors by then - so you'll be able to get pics of that.
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Latest news from British Land is that the tower is still basically "on hold" for at least the next few years.
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Is this thing still on hold?
     
     
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Back in May British Land said they'd go ahead with this once they found a partner.

It's gone a bit quiet since, but there could be good news before the end of the year....

http://www.constructionenquirer.com/...-cheesegrater/
     
     
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British Land has found a partner now, so this one is back on:

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'Cheesegrater' project revived as London office market recovers'

Julia Kollewe, Guardian, Monday 25 October 2010

Decisions taken by property developers to go ahead with the "Cheesegrater" and the "Walkie Talkie" towers in the City will see London's skyline transformed in the next few years. The buildings, due to open in 2014, will be among the tallest and the most striking skyscrapers in the capital since Swiss Re's Gherkin opened in 2004.

British Land, run by former Barclays banker Chris Grigg, said today that it had teamed up with Canada's Oxford Properties to build the 47-storey Leadenhall Building, nicknamed the Cheesegrater because of its wedge-shaped profile....

British Land, the UK's second-largest developer and landlord, has struck a 50-50 joint venture with Oxford Properties Group, the real estate arm of Toronto-based Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, one of Canada's largest pension funds, to build the 610,000 sq ft Cheesegrater for £340m. Designed by Richard Rogers' firm, it will be one of the tallest buildings in the City and will stand on stilts to open up the space below for public use. The storeys vary in size from 21,000 sq ft at the bottom to 6,000 sq ft at the top to accommodate various tenants.

Both skyscrapers are expected to be finished in the second quarter of 2014, when many leases expire in the City. Neither has secured any tenants yet although insurance group Aon is thought to be talking to both Land Securities and British Land. Its lease expires in 2014 and it is looking for about 250,000 sq ft. Both developers stress that they do not need pre-lets to push ahead with the buildings.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...s-cheesegrater
     
     
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The City will have a small but very unique and high-quality skyline.
     
     
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Old Posted Oct 26, 2010, 4:32 PM
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ooooh, i love this building. Glad to see it finally get the green light. I am just a bit disappointed that it isn't getting built in my city.
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A Canadian partner in OMERS (Oxford Properties)...interesting.
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Wow, this is an unexpectedly good turn of events. Just a year ago we thought we might not see another big skyscraper go up in London for a while, and we had largely written this one off. Now it seems that those great skyline renders that wjfox2004 put together may actually come to fruition.
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A Canadian partner in OMERS (Oxford Properties)...interesting.
Yes, it seems that Canadian investment and the history of skyscrapers in London are inextricably linked.

I think this investment will work out better than One Canada Square though, as the money is going in after a recession and not immediately before one...
     
     
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London is going to have an unrecognizable skyline in 5 years. So much going up all over the place.
     
     
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Work to Begin on London's "Cheese Grater" by Richard Rogers
http://archrecord.construction.com/n...chitecture.asp

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London's high-rise architecture has a culinary bent of late. First there was the “Gherkin” by architect Norman Foster; now there is the “Cheese Grater” by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, London. The city's next major high-rise, mothballed for three years during the foundation stage but about to spring to life, got its nickname thanks to its silvery leaning south facade. Passersby likely will find the profile of 122 Leadenhall Street to be the building's most striking feature. But project engineers are more intrigued by the node connections within the structure's expressed structural-steel megaframe.


Photo courtesy of British Land
The 224-m-tall building, nicknamed Cheese Grater because of its one sloping facade and expressed structure, was mothballed three years ago.


Prefabricated nodes to ease construction and provide joints at Richard Rogers' 225 m tall "Cheesegrater" tower.

“The most interesting part of what we have been doing over the past several months has been the analysis and detail design of these nodes,” says Damian Eley, associate director with the project's structural designer, Arup Group, London. “It's visual engineering,” he adds.

Three competitors—London-based Skanska Construction U.K. Ltd.; Mace Ltd., along with Laing O'Rourke Construction Ltd., Dartford; and Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd., Hemel Hempstead—are due to bid on the construction contract soon. Co-developer British Land Co. PLC., London, with Oxford Properties Group, Toronto, hopes to get a contract signed this summer, aiming for shell-and-core completion around mid-2014, says Matthew White, construction executive with British Land. With contractors hungry for work, “it's the best time to secure a lump-sum, fixed-price contract,” he says.

Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour, the 224-meter-tall, 56,700-sq-m building will rise from a roughly 60 x 50-m footprint. Rectangular floor plates will reduce in area from 1,950 sq m at the lowest level to around 560 sq m at the highest. The structural-steel core will be anchored to the main frame's vertical north side.

The design for a sloping south side was driven by the need to avoid blocking views of St. Paul's Cathedral, just over one kilometer to the west, says White. Unobstructed sightlines to the 17th-Century cathedral are an important zoning criterion in central London, he explains.

Having no central core, the building will be stabilized by external megaframes of inclined steel columns with H-sections up to 80 centimeters sq. The building's composite floors will incorporate 70-cm-deep steel beams spanning between vertical steel columns. The megaframe columns will intersect with the floor beams at nodes every seven levels.

“There has been a huge effort to develop [node] details,” says Eley. Using Tekla Structures software, the designers worked with steel subcontractor William Hare Structural Engineers Ltd., Bury, to develop buildable nodes. Shop fabrication will allow the nodes to be welded, rather than bolted, for increased strength, says Eley. “We took the bolted connections away from the joints,” he says.

Weighing a maximum of 30 tonnes each, the nodes will be up to 6 m tall and 3 m wide. Large threaded bolts, up to 7.6 cm in diameter, will connect ends of the nodes' arms to the rest of the building frame. To transfer the large bolt forces, box sections will be welded into the ends of the abutting I-section steelwork. These internally stiffened bolt boxes will be about 50 cm long.

British Land started foundation work on the Leadenhall Street building in 2007, with Bovis Lend Lease Ltd., London, as its construction manager. To accelerate construction, the previous medium-rise building was demolished concurrently on-site, with a large crash deck protecting construction workers below.

“We were getting on with procurement of the project as a whole when the credit crunch came along,” says White.

With about half the piling done and the basement box built, British Land terminated contracts and mothballed the site in spring 2008. Early last year, the developer negotiated a joint-venture agreement to share continuing development of the project with Oxford. It also re-engaged the original design team but not Bovis. British Land had developed the project sufficiently to secure robust construction bids and no longer felt the need for a construction manager, says White.
     
     
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Alguien me podri ayudar diciendome los materiales de este gran edificio, las tecnicas de construccion, las cimentaciones???
Somebody can tell please the materials of these building, and de construccion techniques and the foundations???
Thank u very much
     
     
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