{"id":2601,"date":"2010-11-04T12:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T12:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2010-11-04T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T12:42:31","slug":"heron-tower-skyscraper-110-bishopsgate-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/heron-tower-skyscraper-110-bishopsgate-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/heron-tower-city-of-london-01.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Set to open in\u00a0February\u00a02011 is the Heron Tower skyscraper, located at 110 Bishopsgate in the City of London, near Liverpool Street station.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/heron-tower-city-of-london-02.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Standing 230 metres tall (or 202 metres if you exclude the mast), the Heron Tower is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_London\" target=\"_blank\">tallest building in the City of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number three in London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-london-shard-reaches-for-the-sky-photos\/\">The Shard<\/a> at London bridge set to become the tallest skyscraper in London at 310m, followed by 1 Canada Square at Canary Wharf (235m) in second place, the Heron Tower will have the honour of being London&#8217;s third tallest structure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/heron-tower-city-of-london-03.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Night view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/heron-tower-city-of-london-04.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Liverpool Street station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/heron-tower-city-of-london-05.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The top of the Heron Tower as seen from Brixton, with the Shard to the right. In the foreground is a 1960s tower block on Barrington Road, Brixton.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/heron-tower-city-of-london-06.jpg\" alt=\"Heron Tower skyscraper, 110 Bishopsgate, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With my zoom set to &#8216;maximum&#8217; here&#8217;s a photo of the Heron Tower, showing the 28-metre (92 ft) mast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set to open in\u00a0February\u00a02011 is the Heron Tower skyscraper, located at 110 Bishopsgate in the City of London, near Liverpool Street station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[199,351],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-skyscraper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/heron-tower-city-of-london-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-FX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","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=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}