Go-ahead for City of London’s tallest tower

Plans to build the City of London’s tallest tower have received the green light.
The 74-storey office tower known as 1 Undershaft will deliver nearly 1.7m sq ft of prime office space.
The stepped skyscraper will top out at the same height, when benchmarked against sea level, as the Shard, soaring to the 309.6m maximum ceiling permitted by the civil aviation authority.
Architect Eric Parry designed One Undershaft with WSP on the client team as multi-disciplinary engineer, and Aecom as