The Heron Tower - 110 Bishopsgate

Architect	Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Date Built	2011
Location	110 Bishopgate at the junction with Camomile Street
Description
KPF say of the building that it, " ... organizes itself around a series of office “villages” with a triple-height atrium at the heart of each." .... "From the Bishopsgate approach, the building provides a marker to the northern edge of the city core. The face of the building reveals the organization of “villages” within, its richly textured northern elevation displaying the internal organization of stacked atria." The building stands 663 feet high topped by a 28 metre mast and comprises 46 storeys. In an article in the Guardian on May 16, 2010, Rowan Moore, the architectural critic, says of the Heron Tower that, "Heron offers a niche, boutique product for a financial elite. It is an above-average commercial building without the instant impact of its smaller neighbour, the Gherkin, but also less crude in its detail. What it shows is that skyscrapers are not essential emblems of a powerful modern city, but neither are they inevitably destructive blots on the landscape. They are just one way among many of building things in cities, albeit slower and more difficult than most, and thanks to their visibility inviting more scrutiny from planners."