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In 20 years London’s business district has been transformed. What was, in 2005, still an essentially low-rise area with just the isolated landmarks of the former NatWest Tower and the Gherkin ...
It remained London’s tallest building until 1980, when it was overtaken by the NatWest Tower in the financial district. Both have since been massively eclipsed by the Shard, which towers over ...
In the Square Mile, one-time behemoths such as the 590ft-tall Natwest Tower have long since been dwarfed by other projects such as the 738ft-tall, 45-storey wedge at 122 Leadenhall Street, ...
It was London's tallest building for 16 years until the NatWest Tower in the City of London was built. The tower's former owners, BT Group, announced on Wednesday it had sold it to MCR Hotels.
Pull down Natwest Tower and build new skyscraper, says Rees. Adrian Barrick reports. Corporation of London chief planner Peter Rees this week called for the demolition of the NatWest tower and other ...
London’s BT Tower is set to be reimagined as a landmark in the capital’s hotel scene as part of a £275m deal with US hotel developers MCR Hotels. The telecom giant announced on Wednesday (21 ...
London's 177-m-tall BT Tower has been a lot of things over the years – a telecommunications tower, a revolving restaurant, and even the target of a bombing attack. It's now set to begin a new ...
In a little over two months’ time, the City of London Corporation’s ponderously named Planning Applications Sub-Committee will sit in judgment on two more vast skyscrapers for the Square Mile ...
Standing 620 feet including its spire, it surpassed the Milbank Tower as the tallest building in London, though it was overtaken in 1980 by the NatWest Tower. (The Shard, at 1,016 feet, currently ...
London (CNN) — Tourists who fancy getting a top-down view of London may soon be able to book themselves a room in the city’s famous BT Tower. A much-loved part of the London skyline, the ...