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Abigail Brady ([personal profile] morwen) wrote2008-03-11 04:46 pm

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swiss centre demolition has properly started. they've got rid of the cooling tower on the lower roof (the building is a three storey or so long building, with a skyscraper poking out of part of it), in bits, with their giant crane. they also used their giant crane to move a JCB onto the roof, which was today hacking at concrete. maybe the JCB will cut a big circle in the concrete and then fall inside the building?

yet they still sell tickets out of it.

[identity profile] secretlondon.livejournal.com 2008-03-11 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
/me likes building nerding.

http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/swisscentre_draft_planning_brief.pdf

[identity profile] secretlondon.livejournal.com 2008-03-11 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This (http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/planning_decisions/strategic_dev/2007/20070905/swiss_centre_report.pdf) is better, apparently the nightclub and theatre didn't have planning permission.

[identity profile] secretlondon.livejournal.com 2008-03-11 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
KUrban explorers in the site in January (http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=26572)