Sunday, September 22, 2013

Holy Towers, Batman!


By Hessa Al Habashi
Images courtesy of http://www.building.co.uk/




Unlike the towers of Gotham City in the comic books, this one will be located in London. The 170 m high tower, designed by architect team Make, got its nickname after being inspired by neo-gothic architecture featured in Tim Burton’s Batman films.

The area was acquired by Henderson Global Investments, and will feature over 910,000 square feet of total floor area, where retail space will comprise of 20,000 square feet of this space.

If Henderson gets the thumbs up from the London Corporation, they’ll be able to build what will be the 13th highest building in London. First place going to the 306 m high Shard London Bridge.

Construction will begin in 2015 and is planned to finish in 2019.