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After\u00a0reaching\u00a0just six floors high, work stalled on the Pinnacle Tower<\/a> (formerly known as the Bishopsgate Tower) last year after a half-billion pound shortfall in funding looked set to consign the project into oblivion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, this week Arab Investments have announced that they they’ve managed to rustle up the readies so construction work can resume shortly.<\/p>\n Apparently\u00a0drawing\u00a0its inspiration from “naturally occurring patterns in things like shells, mushrooms and other zoomorphic objects that regularly occur in nature” (you what?!<\/em>), the tower will reach out\u00a0288 metres into the London skyline, making it the second tallest tower in the UK and Western Europe (the nearby Shard skyscraper<\/a> currently has the honour of being #1).<\/p>\n Solar’d to the max<\/strong><\/p>\n According to skyscraper news<\/a>, the building will pack more photovoltaic solar cells than any other building in the UK, with its 2,000 square metres of panelling delivering 200 kilowatts of electricity.<\/p>\n The project should be finished in 2013, ahead of both the rival\u00a0Cheesegrater<\/a> and the Walkie-Talkie<\/a> towers.<\/p>\n I love these daft names given to skyscrapers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After\u00a0reaching\u00a0just six floors high, work stalled on the Pinnacle Tower (formerly known as the Bishopsgate Tower) last year after a half-billion pound shortfall in funding looked set to consign the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6980,"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":[10,351],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-london","tag-skyscraper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pinnacle-tower-london-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-YU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"London's](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pinnacle-tower-london-02.jpg\")
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