LONDON | 122 Leadenhall | 736 FT / 224 M | 53 FLOORS - Page 11

ThatOneGuy · #**201** Posted **May 2, 2013, 8:49 PM**

I agree, the yellow also complements its black neighbour, Aviva Tower, very well!

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I didn't think it was possible to make Guy's Hospital worse.

BrandonJXN · #**202** Posted **May 2, 2013, 10:01 PM**

Fast becoming my favorite skyscraper of all time. Truly amazing. Skyscraper nirvana.

Duck From NY · #**203** Posted **May 4, 2013, 4:26 AM**

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a couple more of the effect of the new towers on the emerging London skyline (from a long way off and as hard as it is to believe London had a heat haze today)

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You're making me nostalgic, even though so much has changed in four years. Heron Tower was about 20 stories up. Since then, City of London has become a trophy case, and a tasteful one at that.

It only rained two or three days out of the three months that I was there, and it was unusually warm. Back home in NYC my friends and family had the lousiest, rainiest summer in memory.

JJSteel · #**204** Posted **May 13, 2013, 10:48 AM**

Looking good. I can't wait for it when it's totally finished.

NYC2ATX · #**205** Posted **May 14, 2013, 6:43 AM**

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This looks like a screenshot from a sci-fi movie from the 80s imagining London in the year 2013. It almost doesn't look real...

chest · #**206** Posted **May 21, 2013, 8:32 PM**

topped out now - think the actual ceremony is in June
a few from this evening from outside Tate modern - with the bubbles bloke doing his stuff

a few bubbles from this evening

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Yorkie · #**207** Posted **May 23, 2013, 11:18 PM**

Great updates....The bubbles bloke is casting a gay haze into the mix..

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franktko · #**208** Posted **May 23, 2013, 11:29 PM**

Wow, I had never seen a cat-sandwich make gay farts before... must smell just luvely!

scalziand · #**209** Posted **May 24, 2013, 5:31 AM**

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Wow, I had never seen a cat-sandwich make gay farts before... must smell just luvely!

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franktko · #**210** Posted **May 24, 2013, 12:48 PM**

lol wtf??

401PAS · #**211** Posted **May 24, 2013, 1:35 PM**

I have been hesitant on commenting on this building in the hopes that it would "grow on me". But the more it goes up, the less I care for it.

From the street it is an affront to the the neighborhood. It looks like a huge toy building block was dumped on top of the existing buildings. And those views of these historic buildings that have now forever been blighted with this thing now lurking over them.

The yellow back is atrocious. It looks like classic jail cells that go out onto catwalks, hideous. and the clear glass that allows you to forever see this horrendous structure both inside and out, bleaa.

From afar or up close, there does not appear to be any redeeming quality to this building. I would hate to have to go and work in the building every day and that is exactly what a good building should make people want to do. It should make them want to be in it and engulfed by it.

I know I'll get a lot of backlash here and truthfully I did want to like this thing but no such luck. Of course this is only my humble opinion which will not mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Good luck to the people of London who have to live with it.

mousquet · #**212** Posted **May 24, 2013, 2:57 PM**

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It's funny how opposite tastes can be. Of course, the visible steel structure is what makes it so appealing. To me.

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It looks like classic jail cells that go out onto catwalks.

Yes, that's a strange thing to it. I would like it better if there wasn't that partition between the office spaces and the 'catwalks'. But again, visually playing with the structure like it does is brilliant. Pretty sure people will be proud to work in there.

chest · #**213** Posted **May 26, 2013, 10:58 PM**

a few in the sun today
one of the last 2 tower cranes has been removed - and the transparent quality of the cladding with the industrial steel structure clearly visible

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