600 more London skyscrapers to transform city skyline

LONDON is on course to become a “Manhattan-on-Thames” with almost 600 more planned skyscrapers set to fill gaps in its already crowded skyline, according to a new report.

- Jonathan Prynn

The 10th annual tall buildings report from think-tank New London Architecture (NLA) finds that there are 583 tall buildings of more than 20 storeys “queuing up in the pipeline”.

That is more than twice as many as the 270 built over the past decade, according to the NLA. There have been 71 skyscrapers completed in Tower Hamlets alone over that time, more than in any other borough.

The report, London’s Growing Up: A Decade of Building Tall, says the rapid change to the capital’s once predominantly low-rise skyline “has been fuelled by burgeoning demand for office and residential space, overseas investment and a supportive planning environment”.