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PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keep track:

http://architecture.about.com/library/bltall.htm

Podcast: Financial and structural limitations are not the same:

http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/11642&answer=true
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:50 pm    Post subject: Construction of "The Cheesegrater" has been postpo Reply with quote
This would have been the tallest building in London, but its completion date has been pushed back a year due to losses in the financial sector and abundance of office space.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1833243,00.html
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, it's all there in London's "City." Oil/Financial/Global.... the FTSE having so little to do with British growth.

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....Further proof of property's fast-changing fortunes: when the Wall Street crash wiped out demand for space in a newly built Empire State Building in the '30s, locals dubbed the iconic skyscraper the "Empty State Building." London developers can be forgiven for aiming high.

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