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Tower 42
Also known as The Natwest Tower
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- Tower 42 was originally built by Natwest and called the Natwest Tower, a name that has still stuck.
- The building was originally planned at 650 feet, 198 metres, but this was reduced. Still its then extreme height was allowed thanks to the combining of air-rights from both parcels of land that it occupies.
- It was the UK's first true skyscraper, and the tallest building in London until the topping-out of 1 Canada Square in the Docklands in 1990.
- When completed the building was the tallest cantilevered tower in the world.
- The building was allegedly the straightest skyscraper in the world thanks to the then cutting-edge use of lasers to insure the verticality was as absolute as possible.
- Although suspected to represent the logo of the Natwest Tower from the air, something that Natwest utilised in television adverts, the architect Richard Seifert always denied his design was supposed to embody Natwest's logo.
- On April 24, 1993, the Provisional IRA exploded a huge truck bomb in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London. The bomb extensively damaged the NatWest Tower and many other buildings in the vicinity, causing over £1 billion worth of damage. The tower suffered severe damage and had to be entirely reclad and internally refurbished (demolition would have been too difficult and expensive).
- The tower features an expensive seafood and champagne bar on the 42nd floor called Vertigo 42. Its height affords patrons an excellent view across central London and beyond.
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29-01-2008 > Tower 42 Owners Plan New Extensions  Companies
If your company has been involved with the Design/Build, Supply or Maintenance of this building please submit your details. - Architect
- R. Seifert & Partners
- Developer
- Natwest
- Main Contractor
- Mowlem
- Renovation Architect
- GMW Architects
- Structural Engineer
- Pell Frischmann
 Reference Data
- Reference No.
- 57
- First Uploaded
- 19-02-2006
- Last Editorial Date
- 04-02-2013
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- Address
- 25 Old Broad Street, London. EC2N 1HQ
- Council
- City of London
- County
- London
- Region
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
View in Google Maps - Status
- Complete
- Proposal date
- 1964
- Construction start date
- 1971
- Completion date
- 1980
- Renovation Date
- 1995
- Style
- International
- Roof Height (AOD)
- 199.20
- Roof Height (AGL)
- 183.00
- Total Floors (O.G)
- 47
- Plant Floors
- 3
- Total Floors (U.G)
- 2
- Number of Lifts
- 13
 Market Data
- Primary Use
- Office
- Secondary Use
- Retail
- Floorspace (sq m)
- 30,100.00
- Car Parking Spaces
- 60
- Construction Cost
- £72,000,000.00
- Budget Date
- 1980
- Last Sale Value
- £226,000,000.00
- Sale Date
- 1998
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