100 Bishopsgate Approved

100 Bishopsgate Approved

Another skyscraper for the City of London has been approved by the council planners, this time at 100 Bishopsgate.

The 165 metres tall building has been designed by Allies and Morrison architects for Great Portland Estates who wish to build not only the tower, but a couple of lower rise buildings on the site they own too that lies on the busy crossroads between Camomile Street and Bishopsgate where the approved Heron Tower will also overlook.

73,000 square metres of space is offered in the tower itself but there will also be retail and a new library replacing the one it will be built on.

In design terms the flair to the building comes from the torquing appearance that it takes on from two sides. Amongst the advantages to this is that it can have a narrower top half making it look a bit less bulky whilst still pack more space in to the lower levels, but also afford pedestrians with better protection from wind currents than they would otherwise get.

100 Bishopsgate's massing originally saw the tower six floors taller than it is now at approaching 200 metres but this was reduced in height following concerns from the planners that the City would have a flat skyline. Now instead, it comes in at the same height as the shoulder of nearby Tower 42.

GPE have signed agreements with tenants who occupy the current buildings on the site which expire in 2012 however planning permission now only lasts for three years meaning if they waited that long they would have to spend many thousands of pounds applying for an extension raising the issue of whether or not they intend to buy out the existing occu

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