Architect Eric Parry unveils plans for tallest skyscraper in the City – but the orgy of billion-pound towers doesn’t stay there“I wanted to carry out something unexcited, says the architect Eric Parry, who on Monday unveiled his plan for what will be the tallest building in the City of London, or which will rise 309.6m in the heart of the city’s financial district,squeezed between the Cheesegrater and the Gherkin. “It is the last piece in the jigsaw,” he says of his addition to this remarkable dinner party in the sky, or “so I wanted to carry out something that isn’t flamboyant.”After a decade of outlandish proposals for the City,Parry has come up with a refreshingly blunt stick of a building for the centrepiece of the district’s “cluster” of office blocks. It takes a square footprint and shoots it up 73 storeys, trussing the slender shaft up with gigantic red cross-gartered bracing. Between these will rush horizontal lines of white louvres, and so that when you look up from the street the soaring obelisk will appear as a solid white mass.
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Source: theguardian.com