{"id":14046,"date":"2014-02-13T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2014-02-13T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:42:34","slug":"developers-unveil-plans-to-stop-the-walkie-talkie-towers-car-melting-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/developers-unveil-plans-to-stop-the-walkie-talkie-towers-car-melting-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers unveil plans to stop the Walkie Talkie tower&#8217;s car-melting rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14048\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/developers-unveil-plans-to-stop-the-walkie-talkie-towers-car-melting-rays\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Developers unveil plans to stop Walkie Talkie tower car-melting rays\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14048\" alt=\"Developers unveil plans to stop Walkie Talkie tower car-melting rays\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Developers of the distinctive Walkie Talkie tower\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">in the City of London have submitted plans to prevent the skyscraper\u00a0<\/span>reflecting<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0powerful rays of sunlight to the street below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" alt=\"Walkie Talkie tower at 20 Fenchurch Street, City of London nears completion, and set to feature Europe's highest roof garden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/walkie-talkie-tower-16.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, reflections from the curved building\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">started fires and caused damage to nearby businesses, and, famously, managed to\u00a0<\/span>melt parts of a parked Jaguar car.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xc2i0g_88uY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Land Securities and Canary Wharf Group have now submitted a planning application to the City of London for what&#8217;s known as a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brise_soleil\" target=\"_blank\">brise soleil<\/a> system,&#8217; which\u00a0prevents solar glare by diffusing sunlight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The proposals will see a series of horizontal aluminium fins being installed across the southern side of the 37-storey building\u00a0<\/span>across levels 3 to 34.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walkie Talkie tower at 20 Fenchurch Street, City of London nears completion, and set to feature Europe's highest roof garden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/walkie-talkie-tower-12.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Experts who analysed the building believed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-23944679\" target=\"_blank\">told the BBC<\/a> that the fires were the result of reflections of sunlight <span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">converging into<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0point:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fundamentally it&#8217;s reflection. If a building creates enough of a curve with a series of flat windows, which act like mirrors, the reflections all converge at one point, focusing and concentrating the light,&#8221; says Chris Shepherd, from the Institute of Physics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If approved, installation of the new system is expected to take around six months to install, so we may see a repeat of the\u00a0temporary scaffolding screen that was put up at street level last September to block out the reflected rays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/walkie-talkie-tower-fenchurch-st-crackles-into-life.267752\/\" target=\"_blank\">Join the discussion on the Walkie Talkie tower on urban75<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-26161175\" target=\"_blank\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the distinctive Walkie Talkie tower\u00a0in the City of London have submitted plans to prevent the skyscraper\u00a0reflecting\u00a0powerful rays of sunlight to the street below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[777,10,351,632],"class_list":["post-14046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-fenchurch-street","tag-london","tag-skyscraper","tag-walkie-talkie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkie-talkie-tower-rays.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3Ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14052,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions\/14052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}