A revised planning utility has been submitted for a 74-storey tower in the Metropolis of London, which might maybe presumably be the second-tallest constructing in Western Europe.
The Metropolis of London permitted plans for a 289 metre constructing at 1 Undershaft, advance the Gherkin and the Cheesegrater, in 2019. Beneath the consented plans, a 73-storey cuboid tower used to be situation to characteristic an external sinful-bracing structure with 90,000 square metres of home of commercial home.
Nonetheless, pattern manager Stanhope and architect Eric Parry Architects enjoy now submitted a peculiar utility for a tower featuring an 11-storey podium topped by three stepped glazed volumes broken up by originate air amenity areas.
The unusual create, which is backed by Singaporean developer Aroland Holdings, incorporates 160,000 square metres of home of commercial home and a additional 20,000 square metres of different home, including public realm.
The proposal is one storey – or 5 metres – taller than the consented create. The constructing might maybe presumably be the tallest in the jap cluster at 294 metres, and second handiest to The Shard (310 metres) in Western Europe.
Plans for the external sinful-bracing structure appear to had been discarded, with pc-generated photos of the latest create showing a grid-admire glazed facade with horizontal articulation.
The plans consist of the demolition of the 28-storey Aviva Tower, which used to be in-built the 1960s. The tower has an unfamiliar structure, with ground suspended from projected steel truss sections held by a concrete core. This implies the demolition of ground will must pick home from bottom to top.
The unusual planning utility states the redesigned 1 Undershaft tower “follows a re-evaluation and response to the submit-pandemic wants, revised market demands, and the altering context and aspirations of the Metropolis of London”.
It adds: “The unusual stepped massing of the constructing introduces enhancements to the public and home of commercial offer thru wellbeing and city greening by providing originate air amenity areas right thru the constructing.
“Animated unusual public realm experiences are offered at ground and at an elevated public podium backyard at diploma 11, supported by unusual food and flexible cultural areas at stages 10, 11 and 12.
“The damage share of the constructing retains the consented quantity and tapered profile, and at its top two stages keep the free-to-talk over with public viewing gallery alongside with devoted schooling areas, each and each curated by the London Museum.”
