Unbuilt skyscraper in London, England
The Vortex Tower was the working name of a London skyscraper design by Make Architects, a London-based business headed by Ken Shuttleworth. The building would have risen to a height of 980 feet (300 m)[1] with 70 floors. The Vortex Tower was proposed for the edge of the City of London[1] but was never built.
The planned shape of the Vortex Tower was a hyperboloid of revolution. The structure would have twisted into a spiral shape with a tapering centre and wide base. The project was based on a different concept, with rotation enabling the use of leaning columns as straight structural elements of hyperboloid.
Shuttleworth expressed surprise when the design was compared to that of the similar Kobe Port Tower, built in Japan in 1963. He said "I haven't seen it before and it was not a source of inspiration for the Vortex." and noted that the Kobe designers "did not use the full envelope of the building", and that the towers would be different colours.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b The Guardian, Twisting tower will be London's highest, 19 June 2004
- ^ Architects' Journal, "Shuttleworth stunned by Vortex's 'clear similarity' to Kobe Tower", 8 July 2004
External links
- The Vortex
- The Vortex press release at the Wayback Machine (archived July 25, 2011)
- Make proposes 300-metre Vortex for London
- London architect’s vision for tall buildings
Buildings over 100 metres in the United Kingdom
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| Birmingham | - Octagon (155m)
- One Eastside (155m)
- Glasswater Locks (123m)
- Cortland Broad Street (111m)
- Exchange Square Phase 2 (111m)
- South Central Tower (100m)
- Maker's Yard (100m)
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| Liverpool | |
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| London | - One Nine Elms East (200m)
- Harcourt Gardens (192m)
- The Madison (184m)
- Vauxhall Square North (168m)
- Vauxhall Square South (168m)
- One Nine Elms West (161m)
- Heron Quays West 2/One Bank Street (147m)
- Canada Water Building C4 (140m)
- Heron Plaza (135m)
- 101 George Street, Croydon (135m)
- Two Fifty One (134m)
- The Atlas Building (134m)
- Keybridge Lofts (128m)
- Nine Elms Point (126m)
- One Crown Place South (123m)
- The Stage Shoreditch (115m)
- One Casson Square, Southbank Place (113m)
- Ram Quarter Residential Tower (113m)
- One Crown Place North (106m)
- Upper Riverside (102m)
- Stratford Central (101m)
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| Manchester | |
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| Salford | - Bankside at Colliers Yard (129m)
- Embankment Exchange (110m)
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| Sheffield | |
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| Birmingham | - 100 Broad Street (193m)
- The Tower Leaf (Irish Centre) (146m)
- Great Charles Street (126m)
- Martineau Galleries 2C (126m)
- 211 Broad Street 'Barcode' (117m)
- Beorma Tower (113m)
- Upper Trinity Street (102m)
- Lower Essex Square (100m)
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| Cardiff | |
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| London | - Riverside South (237m)
- One Lansdowne Road East Tower (236m)
- Heron Quays West (198m)
- Riverside South (186m)
- Ludgate House (161m)
- 1 Merchant Square (150m)
- 20 Blackfriars Road Residential Tower (141m)
- Doon Street Tower (141m)
- 54 Marsh Wall (140m)
- Infinity Towers Building B (127m)
- Convoys Wharf Tower 1 (116m)
- Berwick Tower (115m)
- Quill (109m)
- Sampson House (108m)
- Infinity Towers Building B (104m)
- The Gateway Building (101m)
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| Manchester | - Student Castle Tower 1 (168m)
- Plot F Tower 1 (154m)
- Plot F Tower 2 (154m)
- Trinity Islands Tower 3 (146m)
- Angel Meadow Park (128m)
- Trinity Islands Tower 4 (120m)
- Vision Tower (117m)
- The Gasworks Tower 1 (107m)
- Port Street Tower, Piccadilly Basin (100m)
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| Salford | - Waterloo Place (173m)
- Cotton Quay Tower 1 (158m)
- Parkside at Colliers Yard (123m)
- Cotton Quay, Salford Quays Tower 2 (123m)
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