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Building the Future

Commonly known as “the cheese grater,” the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London’s avant-garde architecture. Designed as a tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton, it’s the tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the most innovative. The teams behind the Leadenhall project had to radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model.

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Commonly known as “the cheese grater,” the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London’s avant-garde architecture. The teams behind the project had to rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. Watch as the tower is constructed off-site, then delivered to London to be stacked and bolted together.

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