Dec 21

Written by: host
12/21/2008 11:39 AM 

Dec. 19, London Plans to scale back a 1,000 ft skyscraper planned on the site of the Battersea Power Station have been labelled a “diversion” by campaigners. The skyscraper, nicknamed “the Dyson”, is the centre piece of developer Treasury Holdings’ £4billion scheme to revamp Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s Grade II* listed masterpiece. Rob Tincknell said it was reducing the tower’s height by 50 metres from 300 metres to 250 metres and its diameter by seven metres, from 32 metres to 25 metres when he presented the revised plan to Mayor of London Boris Johnson...more

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