London's Twenty Tallest Skyscrapers, March 2022.

[@waycoolscootaloo]

Hello from the United States! Awesome video! London has some really cool looking buildings. I have always been fascinated with skyscrapers. And since I'm between Chicago and Milwaukee here in the states, I get to see them all the time in my area. So much new construction happening here too. My grandmother actually used to live in an apartment tower in Chicago that stood 645 ft tall. (Lake Point Tower) It's the shortest building in the world with 70 floors. But it was also once the tallest residential building in the world as well when completed in the 60's. It offers a birds eye view of Navy Pier and the Great Lake of Lake Michigan. 🙂 The tallest building in Chicago here is the 1,451 ft tall (1,729 ft with spires) Willis Tower. (Sears Tower) It's observatory gets you up to 1,353 ft high on the 103rd floor. Its crazy high! You can even see Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana from the top floor on a clear day all at the same time. One day I hope to be able to see London with my own eyes. 🙂

[@pauladams6802]

Scootaloo thanks!! London has a long way to go before it catches up with most US cities, I have been up The Empire State Building in New York & The Burj Khalifa in Dubai plus the UK's very own Shard but I haven't been up the Willis Tower yet, it's on my bucket list!!

[@thebabbler8867]

@@pauladams6802 The only US cities ahead of London is New York, Chicago, and Miami. So London is taller than most of the United States.

[@pauladams6802]

@@thebabbler8867 Wow, every day's a school day, thanks!!

[@MrAbraham1805]

Loved this vid, deserves more credit for the time put into making it! Would love to see more. London skyscrapers is always gna be an ever relavent topic as they're always being built and going up!

[@pauladams6802]

Abraham many thanks for your kind comments!

[@JONASRIBEIRO110i]

Great channel!! I've never been to London but I really wanna be able to visit there one day. I'm sending you greetings from South America!!

[@pauladams6802]

Thank you sir!! I hope you make it to London one day!

[@thetrapdooruniverse6425]

Well done! I love skyscrapers - the more the merrier! Let's build, build, build!

[@pauladams6802]

Thank you!

[@thebabbler8867]

I love the contrast that London has. Hopefully they don't destroy too many old buildings. The ugly ones can go tho.

[@pauladams6802]

Yeah I'd agree with that statement!

[@RedroomStudios]

to me, the Shard is the only one that is truly awesome on a world class level both in design and height. the Gherkin of course is a superb design but far down on the list for height. I think I have a preference for the Canary Wharf skyline vs the financial center of The City. I'm originally from close to Toronto Canada, which currently has 25 buildings over 200 metres with many more currently under construction. its interesting to compare one city vs another. thanks a lot for putting together this video!

[@pauladams6802]

Thanks for the input, I can agree with much of what you have stated here! I would love to travel to Canada one day, one of my bucket list places, again thanks.

[@RedroomStudios]

@@pauladams6802 Toronto is note worthy if you are into skyscrapers. other than that I wouldnt advise visiting there. it is a soulless hell hole. during covid I sold everything and moved out of the country rather than live under the tyranny they were pushing on the citizens. I've been living in Mexico for the last 15 months.

[@Mr79Shahin]

Nice video buddy. I love cycling around London and checking out the new towers that have been built or that are rising up. One Canada Square has a real NYC look and feel about it. I would say that most of these buildings look great and constitute high quality design - I imagine they spend years and millions in the planning process.

[@pauladams6802]

Thanks for the kind words & be careful out there!!

[@Mr79Shahin]

@@pauladams6802 will do. You should do a video on the Barbican - it’s a fascinating place and the resi towers there go up 40 odd storeys

[@pauladams6802]

@@Mr79Shahin I skimmed over it in my retro skyscrapers video, it's maybe one for the future!

[@churchill24]

Great video Paul, I love London towers, luckily we have the great Lord Foster amongst us designing great buildings. One Park Drive is a favourite of mine

[@pauladams6802]

Tony thanks for your kind words, my favourite is still the old dinosaur that is Tower 42!!

[@stroll-and-roll]

Cool Video! Greetings from Germany.

[@pauladams6802]

Danke mein Freund!

[@abertolucci9780]

Interesting London doesn’t have any skyscrapers in the 800- 900 ft category.

[@pauladams6802]

Very interesting, I wonder whether any upcoming towers will fill the void!

[@adamknight7041]

@@pauladams6802 100 Leadenhall or "The Diamond" as it is being nicknamed expected to be complete by approximately 2027 will according to numerous sources be 864'ft

[@wombat1238marsupial]

Another great video Paul, after that you might need to see a Chiropractor with all that neck straining to get them in the shot😂You can only guess at the types of residents who can afford to live in some of them. Every time I saw the residential towers I was reminded of the film Towering Inferno, so no I won't be living in any of those if I had the chance😂😂

[@pauladams6802]

Thank you! I once lived on the 17th floor of a tower block in London in the eighties, I was young & fit enough to race my dad up the stairwell whilst he travelled in the lift, I'd be dead after two levels now I reckon!!

[@adam70628]

One of the best really to the point and clear

[@pauladams6802]

Adam thank you!

[@adrianhutchings3377]

Thanks for a great video. Tower 42 was always known to me as the NatWest Tower. As a student in London in the 1970's I watched in amazement as it was being built- I couldn't imagine anything being higher! For simple style I think the Gherkin takes the prize.

[@pauladams6802]

Adrian thanks, Tower 42 is the grand daddy of them all & the gherkin is being crowded out by so many other skyscrapers it's hard to pick out these days!

[@davidmg1925]

Dear God, whats with the eye-shadow pal?

[@davidmccann9811]

Great video. I used to work in the BT Tower back in the 80s and we used to say it was the tallest building in the UK. This is because although at 580 ft it was 20 feet shorter than the then NatWest Tower (now Tower 42) it also had a quite bulky 40 ft mast on top, which gave it a total height of 620 ft. 👍

[@pauladams6802]

Wow David, I would love to have seen the view from up there, shame they closed it to the public.

[@stephenlee5929]

I was so surprised not to see the Walkie Talkie building, just checked only 160m. Really difficult to get their true beauty, but nice video, thanks.

[@pauladams6802]

Stephen, yeah I was surprised it didn't make the top 20 either!

[@normhanson981]

Great vid, thanks , a good way to get your walking steps in , love London , it’s always evolving. I’m living in Cornwall but would love to retire in London one day . Cheers.

[@pauladams6802]

Norm thanks, I think most Londoners would like head in the opposite direction towards Cornwall for their retirement though!!

[@stevenhoughton1406]

I don't understand how London has so many skyscrapers compared to other UK cities especially with all the historic buildings around London. I live in Birmingham and when ever a skyscraper gets proposed historic England always object to it because it will have a negative effect on surrounded historic buildings yet London has no problems chucking loads of skyscrapers up even though it has much more important historic buildings compared to Birmingham.

[@pauladams6802]

Steven thanks, I think a lot of these tall buildings are built upon the post war monstrosities that were erected on land created in the wake of the devastation caused by the blitz although I know Birmingham was heavily bombed too, I can't explain why this is the case but hopefully Birmingham will start to rise like Manchester & give London a run for it's money!!

[@mickho7910]

Once, on a rainy day in London, water was pouring from the ceiling of the 6th tallest building (122 Leadenhall) - this was on the 10th floor. Go figure.

[@pauladams6802]

Mick that's strange, I hope they fixed it, London sure has it's fair share of rain!!

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

Fantastic channel for skyscrapers! Will subscribe :)

[@pauladams6802]

Thank you kindly!!

[@Sarumanthewhite888]

Thank you so much for making this video, it really helps for newcomers to London to know these skyscrapers, its nice to recognise them when driving around.

[@pauladams6802]

Paul no worries my friend, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@benwherlock9869]

A couple of those buildings are absolute dogshit aesthetically. But I'm not saying which ones.

[@pauladams6802]

Ben lol, I love the term dogshit, that made me laugh!

[@Fluffychoupikkos]

Amazing video . I love how you show the buildings and walking underneath them . Great job

[@pauladams6802]

Thanks for the kind comments!

[@ericfreeman273]

Ah, thx for sharing dude. u sound like a very proud Londoner as ya should be mate, facts😊 London is stunning as always

[@pauladams6802]

Eric thank you!

[@ThePeculiarChannel]

I had been working at Wardian twins tower for 11 months, very nice view from there and it is very high building!!!

[@pauladams6802]

Wow, I bet the views are amazing!

[@condebakary6138]

Londres est une ville impressionnante

[@pauladams6802]

Aussi cher mon ami

[@jeanluc4530]

llove London

[@jimmyadams628]

Another brilliant video. Great research .

[@pauladams6802]

Jimmy, many thanks my friend!

[@muzaffarnadkar2154]

London is so elegant,beautiful city in the world excellent city love from mumbai.india.yeah baby.

[@pauladams6802]

Muzzaffar thanks!

[@muzaffarnadkar2154]

@@pauladams6802 you welcome paul

[@grahamarnhem8659]

Great video subscribed 👍

[@pauladams6802]

Graham thank you!

[@sionalunevans]

Cool video! I live close to the highest structure in wales - nebo tv mast. Not a building Just lower than the Shard at 308M Edit. Sorry. Just higher at 317 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arfon_transmitting_station

[@pauladams6802]

Sion thanks for the info!!

[@elaineread15]

Great video...fair to say that Londoners on the whole dislike these buildings. The BT tower is iconic, the Gherkin is popular but without exception those buildings at Vauxhall/Nine Elms are hated...South of the River. As Trump said.."an off location"

[@pauladams6802]

Elaine thanks & they named the area Embassy Quarter in it's honour!!

[@jamiearnott9669]

Excellent video. Most of them have being built the last 20 years which incidentally is as long as I've lived in London. Yes the design of these buildings look real odd, it's called post modern architecture. After having avoided modern skyscrapers in 20th century ,London is now going all out building post modern skyscrapers in 21st century.

[@pauladams6802]

Jamie thank you!

[@tremarley9648]

This video is perfect 👏 good job

[@pauladams6802]

Tre thanks my friend!

[@favesongslist]

Are any of these open to the public for free or cheap or like the Shard £25 to go in?

[@pauladams6802]

Timothy, apart from the Shard, which you mentioned, I think the only others that are open to the public are the bars in Tower 42 & the Heron Tower but from what I've been told these bars are not the cheapest as you would expect in the City of London with all the bankers & traders etc that no doubt frequent them. Sky Garden in the "Walkie Talkie" (20 Fenchurch Street) which didn't make this list by a couple of places has free access I think, it also has a bar at the top & stunning views across the City & over to the Shard.

[@favesongslist]

@@pauladams6802 Thank you so much for this information, much apricated. I will try to follow it up when I am next in London, maybe some time yet though. EDIT: I found this about 20 Fenchurch Street Sky Garden Bars are now open from 8am, Tues - Fri and from 9am Sat - Sun for 90 mins of walk-in visits. After these times you will need to have a public access ticket which you can get here. Access to the Sky Garden is free of charge on weekdays 10am-6pm and weekends 11am-9pm, see our opening hours here. We ask you to please cancel your ticket if you can no longer make it so we may allow another guest to visit. Tickets are currently available to book up to three weeks in advance. Tickets are only valid for the date and time stated on the ticket and have a time limit of 1hr from time of entry. Although we recommend booking a free access ticket, especially on weekends when it can get busy, if we have space we accept walk-ins all day! Come along and ask our team and we will do our best to fit your visit to Sky Garden in.

[@fly89]

@@pauladams6802 yeah .. you should book the free ticket asap for the walkie talkie tower though. or book tables for the darwin brasserie / fernchurch rest. (quite expensive and very noisy in the darwin). I think just get the free access to the sky garden and you can get some drinks from the bar up there would be enough.

[@simonwragg3613]

An excellent video, with some superb coverage. However, the tallest building in the UK is the Emley Moor tower, at 330 metres.

[@pauladams6802]

Simon thanks, it was a schoolboy error, I went back on the video & realised that I said "building" instead of "skyscraper" when describing the shard as the tallest. Note to self, must try harder!

[@norbertk.5328]

I had a job at the Heron tower in the Sushisamba. Other skyscrapers are a bit too close so the view wasn't the best from the kitchen window.

[@pauladams6802]

Norbert thanks, they are closing in from all angles!

[@billykegs8782]

Love this.

[@pauladams6802]

Billy many thanks!

[@jeanluc4530]

magnifique !

[@pauladams6802]

Jean Luc thanks!

[@pickynicky6265]

Great video 👍 happy Saturday 😀

[@pauladams6802]

pickynicky thanks!!

[@muhammadshaide1441]

Hello how are you

[@pauladams6802]

Muhammad I'm good thanks!

[@muhammadshaide1441]

Palec

[@muhammadshaide1441]

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[@BlueSkiesAbove39]

Go away

[@seansmith445]

Most people in the UK can't relate to meters no matter how hard it is pushed on us.

[@Ruddermeister]

Absolutely not true. Most people of a certain age group...ahemmm...say over late fifties and up perhaps, but not the younger ones...

[@seansmith445]

@@Ruddermeister Actually we have a hybrid system in the UK which is a mess, but young people have not been fully converted to metric. They still drive in miles and still get weighed in stones and pounds and still measure their height in feet and inches. The metric system is only really used fully in industry.

[@pauladams6802]

I think you are right Sean, it is a mess although I'm fine with both metric & imperial, if I'm measuring something I much prefer metric for smaller items but must admit that being of a certain age (Rudi!!) I understand feet, miles, pounds & fahrenheit a lot more!!

[@samprudence5785]

this is premium content

[@pauladams6802]

Sam you are too kind, thanks!

[@wellifthemediasaysit]

no 15, Amory tower, is probably better known as 'the madison' (hotel)!

[@pauladams6802]

That's what it was written down as in every article I had read about it & I would have called it that but when I went to film it, the signs all around it & above the door clearly stated that it was called the Amory tower, that's the beauty of actually being on the ground & seeing it for yourself!

[@wellifthemediasaysit]

@@pauladams6802 Must be the development thats known as 'madison' then, much like SQP is the development, and the towers are valiant, and hampton towers! Nice work. 4k would have been nice though!

[@pauladams6802]

@@wellifthemediasaysit Thanks for the info on SQP!!

[@wellifthemediasaysit]

@@pauladams6802 If you like your skyscrapers, try out the free observation decks, at sky garden (walkie talkie tower) and also theres a large 360 degree one called 'the garden at 120'. If you fancy paying a small fortune for some good sushi, head up to sushi samba, on top of the heron tower, nice outdoor terrace, the glass elevator is worth the price in itself! PS 22 bishopsgate will have a free observaton deck, opening soon!

[@pauladams6802]

@@wellifthemediasaysit I've taken my family up to the top of the sky garden & the shard in the past as well as the empire state building & the Burj Khalifa!! I wouldn't mind going up to sushi samba & the bar in tower 42 but as you say, you'd pay a small fortune for the privilege!! I didn't realise there is going to be a viewing platform at 22 Bishopsgate though, that's definitely one for the future, cheers!

[@lukew1100]

Nice one

[@pauladams6802]

Luke thank you!

[@jacobbernard1393]

Great to see London come to distinguish itself as a major global center of high-rise architecture. The rest of Europe should take notes.

[@pauladams6802]

Jacob indeed, Europe is lagging behind the rest of the world.