The Leadenhall Building, commonly called the Cheesegrater for its wedge-shaped profile, stands at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London, completed in 2014 to a design by the firm Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, founded by Richard Rogers. Its sloped south face was deliberately shaped to preserve the sightline to St Paul's Cathedral when viewed from Fleet Street, a protected view that London planning rules require tall buildings nearby to respect. The tower's structural steel frame and service cores are left visibly exposed on its exterior, a design language that continues the high-tech architectural approach Rogers had earlier used at the Lloyd's building nearby. Much of the building's steel structure was prefabricated off site and assembled on the ground before being lifted into place, a construction method chosen to minimize disruption to the dense surrounding streets.
Facts
Building Type Completed YearLead gives the opening as July 2014; infobox completion_date gives June 2013 Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikidata: Leadenhall Building
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: 122 Leadenhall Street
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Office
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skyscraper in central London
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It opened in July 2014
The Leadenhall Building
is 225 m (737 ft) tall
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The Leadenhall Building, commonly called the Cheesegrater for its wedge-shaped profile, stands at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London, completed in 2014 to a design by the firm Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, founded by Richard Rogers. Its sloped south face was deliberately shaped to preserve the sightline to St Paul's Cathedral when viewed from Fleet Street, a protected view that London planning rules require tall buildings nearby to respect. The tower's structural steel frame and service cores are left visibly exposed on its exterior, a design language that continues the high-tech architectural approach Rogers had earlier used at the Lloyd's building nearby. Much of the building's steel structure was prefabricated off site and assembled on the ground before being lifted into place, a construction method chosen to minimize disruption to the dense surrounding streets.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Leadenhall Building
- Wikidata Q2742547, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q2742547, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
- In Style: High-Tech Architecture, Infobox style field: Post-modern / Structural expressionism
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