Tower As Tall As The Shard Approved For Square Mile
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
A skyscraper the same height as The Shard has been approved by the City of London Corporation.
These three paragraphs add more detail.
One Undershaft, will be the tallest in the City of London, containing 74 storeys.
It will also feature a public garden on the 11th floor and a London Museum education centre.
The plans were approved by the City of London Corporation on Friday but some consultees remain opposed to the plans, including Historic England and Tower Hamlets Council.
I have read the Wikipedia entry for the Shard and feel this building could have a few problems before it is finished.
The queue opposing the building appears to be forming starting with Historic England and Tower Hamlets Council.
I also wonder, if the City of London keeps on putting up mega-scrapers like this, whether there’ll be enough men, women, machines, money and materials to build them.
And workers to fill them.
How To Recycle A Hospital
The old Royal London Hospital is starting to emerge from its plastic chrysalis, as the new Whitechapel Civic Centre.
It is now eighteen years, since my granddaughter was born in the hospital with a congenital hernia of the diaphragm.
- There were twenty-three people in the delivery room.
- She was operated on within forty-eight hours by the incomparable Vanessa Wright.
- She left hospital many weeks later.
- Last year, she had her eighteenth birthday and entered the world of work.
A few years ago, I met one of the nurses, who’d looked after her in the hospital. On hearing of her successful life, she was exceedingly surprised. But also exceedingly happy!
But then success in life, is often down to those you meet! And my granddaughter happened to meet one of the best!
The Anonymous Widower 