122 Leadenhall Street is a 225-meter (738-foot) office skyscraper in the City of London, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners under Richard Rogers and completed in 2013, opening to occupants in 2014. Standing 48 floors tall next to the Lloyd Building, it is informally known as the Cheesegrater for its distinctive wedge-shaped profile, a design deliberately tapered to preserve protected sightlines of St Paul Cathedral. The tower is built on a steel megaframe rather than a conventional concrete core, described as the tallest structure of its kind in the world, and its ground level opens onto a thirty-meter public atrium. It cost 1.15 billion pounds to build and counts the insurance broker Aon among its major tenants.
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122 Leadenhall Street, also known as the Leadenhall Building, Leadenhall Tower or informally the Cheesegrater, is a 225-metre-tall (738 ft) skyscraper in central London.
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122 Leadenhall Street, also known as the Leadenhall Building, Leadenhall Tower or informally the Cheesegrater, is a 225-metre-tall (738 ft) skyscraper in central London.
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It opened in July 2014 and was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
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122 Leadenhall Street, also known as the Leadenhall Building, Leadenhall Tower or informally the Cheesegrater, is a 225-metre-tall (738 ft) skyscraper in central London.
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Unlike other tall buildings, which typically use a concrete core to provide stability, the steel "Megaframe", engineered by Arup, provides stability to the entire structure and is the world's tallest of its kind.
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The new tower features a tapered glass façade on one side which reveals steel bracings, along with a ladder frame to emphasise the vertical appearance of the building.
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122 Leadenhall Street, also known as the Leadenhall Building, Leadenhall Tower or informally the Cheesegrater, is a 225-metre-tall (738 ft) skyscraper in central London.
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