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Gallery: Shard Evacuated In Fire Drill

Emergency services test out evacuation plans in western Europe’s tallest building.

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Southbank Tower To Grow Six Floors Taller Following Cash Injection

King’s Reach plans get a cash injection.

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Walkie Talkie: A Visit To 20 Fenchurch Street

A free garden in the sky, coming soon to London.

The St George Tower grows in Vauxhall, by Prad Patel

The Friday Photos: London Construction

Watching London grow upwards.

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Guy’s Hospital Tower To Finally Get A Facelift?

Shard neighbour to get a spit and polish.

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Video: Building The Cheesegrater

Slightly geeky but very impressive video about the construction of a new London landmark.

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Blackfriars Station Beset By Delays

The completion date for the new, Thames-spanning station at Blackfriars has been pushed back by four months. Network Rail blamed the delay on additional repair work over Blackfriars bridge, which involves incorporating the adjacent, disused piers into a new cross-river structure. The cost of the …

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Westminster Abbey Gets New Hat

Image by Wallyg Or, in the parlance of ecclesiastical architecture, a new corona. Plans are afoot to build a £10 million crown-like structure on the abbey’s roof, directly above the spot where nearly every monarch since the Conqueror has been crowned. The structure would replace …

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Architects Tell Charles To Keep His Nose Out

Image / Southcoasting Fed up with his royal toes treading on their profession, a group of architects have hit back at Prince Charles. Rather than interfere in his line of work by launching a sub-standard line of cookies and jams, they’ve co-signed a letter requesting …

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Chelsea Ponder Battersea Blues

Stadia mania seems to be gripping the Premier League: a week after Tottenham announced plans for a new stadium, Chelsea are apparently considering a move away from their Stamford Bridge home to a purpose-built ground in Battersea. A design drawn up by architect HOK Sport …

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