Tower Place
- Company:
- Waagner Biro steel and glass GmbH
- Client:
- Tishman Speyer
- Country, City:
- United Kingdom
- Object category:
- architecture building
- Material:
- glass
- Services:
- Engineering
- Completion:
- 2002
A gently curved and floating roof together with glass walls envelop the area between two buildings situated near the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. The 60 m wide north wall is especially innovative and the most transparent one built so far. It includes 4 m long horizontal glass needles ... to support the wall which is the first use of glass tubes on a large scale project worldwide.