London?

[powell11]

Could london have as much towers and as tall towers as new york if it wanted to, because all i know is that london wants to keep it a beautifil city instead of havin lots of towers?

[DEN53]

Bloody hell Annie, I don't know who's male you have been looking at - ha ha ha no I think you mean the Gerkin

[DEN53]

^^^^^
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[ChuckFickens]

the Lloyds' building is the one with all the pipes etc. on the outside

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Lloyds_Building_stair_case.jpg

I actually like it, especially at night.

[DEN53]

Have a look at these lovely photos - I think the Lloyds Building and the Gerkin are amongst them.
Not sure though. I posted these on here quite a while ago.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/london_from_above_at_night.html

[jno]

stewey, one other reason is that Manhattan is a lump of rock, so it's easier to build skyscrapers. There's a fair amount of subsoil on much of it but the rock is close to the surface at two places, Midtown (where the Empire State building is and right Downtown (where the World Trade Center was). (For the same reason, I don't think they have any deep-level underground trains, too hard to tunnel.) Skyscrapers on London clay need a bit more support. But Ken Livingstone loved them and I think Boris does too, so they will continue to be built - when the money is available. A lot of them have been put on hold because of the recession. A good thing too as they are actually planned to look more like Shanghai than Manhattan, all wacky shapes - mobile phones, shards of glass, cheese graters and so on.

[jno]

this is what it's expected to look like

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/City_and_southwark_2012_skyline.jpg