Archaeologists stunned by discovery at planned site of new London skyscraper - Developer has agreed to incorporate the ...

lacking both the sense of uplift and exuberance of prewar skyscrapers and the lightness and elegance of the best postwar buildings. The street-level areas came in for special criticism.

Super-tall skyscrapers are being built in cities around the world where they might normally sink. But a process called deep-soil mixing allows builders to give skyscrapers a stronger base.

70 Gracechurch Street will consist of a new tower added onto the existing structure at this address. Another week, another skyscraper is given planning permission in the City of London.

Sculptural wings fan out from the skyscraper's Y-shaped tripartite floor plan. Photo courtesy of SOM "The stepped shape helps to confuse the wind," Smith told the Wall Street Journal in 2011.

Sophie Jackson of Museum of London Archaeology called it “one of the most significant discoveries” in years in London’s oldest quarter, the City — the square-mile financial district where modern glass ...

“The 99 Bishopsgate scheme will also give the Square Mile one of the largest public realm upgrades from a single planning application, in recent history, increasing the ‘walkability’ of the City, so ...