{"id":78571,"date":"2025-05-06T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78571\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:36:11","slug":"the-only-way-is-up-secrets-of-londons-skyscraper-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78571\/","title":{"rendered":"The only way is up: Secrets of London\u2019s skyscraper boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 Undershaft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Planning permission for 1 Undershaft was approved by the Corporation last December. The City\u2019s highest building will have 154,000 sq m of commercial space in 74 storeys and provide nearly 13 per cent of the Square Mile\u2019s identified office needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>50 Fenchurch Street<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201csuper green\u201d development is claimed to be one of the lowest carbon workplace towers in the UK. Construction started last summer and the building is expected to be completed in 2028, making it the only major City office scheme confirmed to come available that year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Finsbury Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This multi-tower development will offer 63,000 sq m of floor space, 1,000 sq m of retail and 1,800 sq m of learning space. The project, a joint venture between GIC and British Land, is set to finish construction later this year. British Land say it will boost the Broadgate area.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Leadenhall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This 36-storey tower will provide 40,000 sq m of office space. It will have two basement levels, ground floor retail units, and a restaurant and public terrace on the fourth floor with views of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>63 St Mary Axe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A planning application was submitted earlier this year and is expected to come before the sub-committee in July. The proposed development will be 46 storeys and provide a range of public amenities, including a display of a currently buried section of London\u2019s Roman wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 Undershaft Planning permission for 1 Undershaft was approved by the Corporation last December. The City\u2019s highest building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,11512,393,4884,257,38411,38412,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-78571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-city-of-london","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-skyscrapers","14":"tag-square-mile","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}