20 Fenchurch Street, The City

London is busily transforming itself into a sci-fi city. Dubbed the “walkie talkie” because of its shape, which widens as the building rises, 20 Fenchurch Street will have a public viewing area and gardens on its upper floors. The 36 storey building will be completed in summer 2014.

Great Arthur House, EC1

Part of the Corporation’s Grade II-listed Golden Lane Estate, which was completed in the mid-1960s. “Great Arthur House is the first residential tower block in London to be built that was over 50 metres in height, and indeed the first one to breach the 100 foot height limit in the City of London,” according to …