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	Tower 42 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tower, designed by Richard Seifert, was built between 1971 and 1979, and opened in 1980, costing a total of £72 million.
		Tower 42 was the tallest building in London and the United Kingdom for 10 years.
		Tower 42 contains two restaurants: Rhodes Twenty Four, which is situated on the 24th floor and operated by renowned chef Gary Rhodes; and Vertigo 42, a champagne and seafood bar located on the 42nd floor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tower_42 (663 words)

	NatWest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		NatWest is considered one of the Big 4 banks in the UK, and has a large branch network across England and Wales.
		In 1993, the NatWest Tower was devastated by a Provisional IRA bomb, and the bank vacated the building, later selling it in 1998.
		NatWest was forced to cancel its merger, but refused to agree to a takeover by a rival bank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NatWest (524 words)

	Tower 42 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Tower 42 is the tallest building in the City of London.
		On April 24th 1993, the Provisional IRA exploded a large truck bomb in the Bishopgate area of the City of London.
		The tower was then known for a time as the International Financial Centre.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/to/tower_42.html (155 words)

	Tower 42 Natwest Tower
		Tower 42 (then known as the NatWest Tower) was the tallest building in the United Kingdom for 10 years, from its completion in 1980 to the topping-out of One Canada Square in November 1990.
		The footprint of Tower 42 was designed to resemble the logo of the National Westminster Bank, for whom the tower was built.
		NatWest vacated the building in the aftermath of an IRA bombing on April 24th, 1993, which ripped through the City's financial district, causing damage to this and several other office buildings.
	www.mpga.co.uk /CommercialSec0.htm (172 words)

	London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heathrow Airport and is a major tourist destination - counting iconic landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, The London Eye and Buckingham Palace amongst its many attractions, along with famous institutions such as the British Museum and the National Gallery.
		The Tower of London, built by William the Conqueror in the 11th century.
		This castle was expanded by later kings and is now known as the Tower of London, serving first as a royal residence and later as a prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London (5895 words)

	Guardian \| Richard Seifert
		In the case of his last great structure, the 183-metre Natwest Tower (originally one of two towers, the second of which was never built), a 10-year planning battle took place that helped to ensure the building faced obsolescence almost as soon as it was opened in 1981.
		By any standards, the Natwest Tower, built as a new headquarters for the National Westminster Bank, was a tremendous technical and design achievement.
		By the mid-1980s, it was clear that the Natwest tower's office floors were too small and too close together for electronic workstations and all the cabling and air conditioning needed to serve them.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4286936-103684,00.html (1301 words)

	Tower Power at The Architecture Foundation
		With Cesar Pelli's tower at One Canada Square being the tallest building in Britain to date at 240m and 50 storeys high, Canary Wharf is fast becoming the main financial district in London.
		Integral to the design of 'urban park living', is the Eco-Tower, created by bioclimatic tower expert Ken Yeang with HTA as part of the Elephant and Castle masterplan, pulling together the principles applied at ground level with the piazza tower.
		It is designed as a cluster of three slender, leaf-shaped towers that are structurally connected along their vertical axis so that each tower derives structural support from the other two.
	www.architecturefoundation.org.uk /towerpower/index_ie.html (1540 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| NatWest: A history
		NatWest now has some 1,700 branches across the UK and Ireland, offering personal and corporate banking as well as mortgage, financing and broking services.
		In 1998, it sold NatWest Tower, one of London's landmarks and until then a proud symbol of the firm's stature.
		NatWest is also hoping to boost its consumer business with a joint venture with internet portal Yahoo, through which it is developing its online banking service.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/619438.stm (719 words)

	London - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Once dominated by the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, it is now home to many tall buildings, including Tower 42 (formerly, and popularly still, known as the NatWest Tower) and 30 St Mary Axe (popularly known as the "Gherkin", built in 2003).
		The East End of London is closest to the original Port of London, and tended for that reason to be the area of the city where immigrants arriving into the port would settle first.
		Tower 42 (formerly known as the Natwest Tower)
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/o/n/London.html (6874 words)

	Tower 42 - SkyscraperPage.com
		Tower 42 was officially opened by Queen Elizebeth II in 1981.
		Formerly known as the Natwest Tower, the building's footprint is the shape of the Natwest logo.
		Tower 42 is believed to be the tallest cantilever building in the world.
	www.skyscraperpage.com /cities/?buildingID=198 (241 words)

	London Telecom Tower - london information from 4london.info
		One of london's most famous landmarks, the telecom tower (originally the post office tower) was opened on the 8th October 1965.
		Telecom tower was built to allow the transfer of telephone signals without interference from other tall buildings.It was the tallest building in London for 15 years, before being overtaken by the NatWest Tower in 1981 (and then docklands).
		Then, in 1980, the tower was closed to the public for repairs to the elevators, and it never reopened.
	www.4london.info /londontelecomtower.htm (371 words)

	Tower 42, London
		Tower 42 contains two restaurants: Rhodes Twenty Four, which is located on the 24th floor and operated by renowned chef Gary Rhodes and; Vertigo 42, a champagne and seafood bar located on the 42nd floor.
		NatWest vacated the building in the aftermath of an IRA bombing on 24th April 1993, which ripped through the City's financial district, killing one person and causing damage to this and several other office buildings, including 99 Bishopsgate.
		The cross section of Tower 42 was designed to resemble the logo of the National Westminster Bank (NatWest), for whom the tower was built.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=110590 (474 words)

	Crystal Palace luxury display cases. Curio Cabinets for Swarovski Crystal in 24K goldplated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Tower 42 is a building in London, the tallest in the City of London.
		The tower, designed by Richard Seifert, was constructed in 1979 and opened in 1980, costing a total of £72 million.
		NatWest relinquished ownership and the building was renamed Tower 42, in reference to its 42 floors.
	www.display-cabinets.uk.com /news8/tower42.html (344 words)

	London Telecom Tower, formerly BT Tower and Post Office Tower, Fitzrovia, West End, London - photos and background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Costing £2 million to construct, the 189m (620ft) cylindrical tall tower is made from 13,000 tonnes of concrete, steel and glass, and at the time of opening was the tallest building in London.
		The tower was to become the crucial artery in Britain's new microwave telecommunications network, which planners fondly imagined might survive a nuclear exchange, and so enable our PM to plaintively ring other world leaders from an enormous bunker in Wiltshire.
		The Telecom Tower's impressive height (it remained the tallest building in London until the NatWest Tower in 1981) ensured that it could beam calls over the Chiltern hills that form the north rim of the London basin.
	www.urban75.org /london/telecom.html (910 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| City's tallest building opens to the public
		It still houses NatWest's international operations, but the bank's headquarters is still in an older building, situated behind the Bank of England.
		NatWest announced last year that it would not reoccupy the building, and has been successful in attracting new tenants to the 317,000 square feet of offices.
		After the Bishopsgate bomb in 1993 caused significant damage to the tower and the surrounding area, NatWest took the decision to vacate the premises permanently and have the building refurbished in readiness for new tenants.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/34292.stm (365 words)

	National Westminster Bank
		National Westminster Bank is selling Gleacher NatWest, its US corporate advisory division, to management for undisclosed terms, as part of an ongoing withdrawal from investment banking.
		NatWest Bank has begun a trial of a £5-a-month information service called Zenda, providing travel timetables, weather reports, traffic problems, news, entertainment, car-buying and finance.
		NatWest has rejected an informal merger approach from Barclays, a move which would have created the second largest banking group in the UK.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /nak51536.htm (1551 words)

	Ashlee House - London Telecom tower, moumetos arquitectonicos de londres, vistas de londres, visitas fuera de londres, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Whatever the reasons for its unique shape, the tower is one of the milestones of technological development and a symbol of London’s leadership in development.
		The London Telecom Tower is not just a historical artifact, it contributes to the day to day living of its residents who rely on its technology for both radio and communication.
		While the London Telecom Tower may not be on the typical lists of top tourist attractions, it is worth a visit especially if your accommodations are conveniently located near to it.
	www.ashleehouse.co.uk /SPA/guide_telecom_tower.aspx (329 words)

	Telecom Tower, London
		The Telecom Tower, built in 1964, and still popularly known by its original name - the Post Office Tower - rises to a height of 189m/620ft above the surrounding streets.
		It houses both a television transmitter and receiver and a radio-telephone relay and is crowned by an aerial mast.
		The tower is not open to the public.
	www.planetware.com /london/telecom-tower-gb-l-tt.htm (101 words)

	Tower 42, City of London - London - UK Attraction
		Tower 42 is the tallest building in the City of London, and until the construction of Canary Wharf, was the tallest building in Britain.
		Long known as the NatWest tower, the skyscraper is cleverly designed to form the shape of the high-street bank’s insignia, although this feature can only be viewed from an aeroplane or by a satellite in space!
		Since NatWest moved from the tower, it has been used by many financial institutions, and now hosts some of London’s most famous restaurants and bars.
	www.ukattraction.com /london/tower-42.htm (206 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/London
		The city is an international transport hub and a popular tourist destination, counting iconic landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace amongst its many attractions, along with famous institutions such as the British Museum and the National Gallery.
		In the dense areas, most of this density is achieved with medium-rise buildings; high-rise buildings are not the norm, even in employment centres, and thus skyscrapers such as the City's "Gherkin" and Tower 42 and Canary Wharf's 50-story One Canada Square generally stand out in the skyline.
		The 72-storey, 310m "Shard London Bridge" by London Bridge station, the 288m Bishopsgate Tower and around 30 other skyscrapers over 150m are either proposed or approved and could transform the city's skyline.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/London (4937 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| London plan for tallest tower in Europe unveiled
		If permission is granted, the consortium that is planning to build the tower says that it would be completed in 2005.
		Mr Sellar said the tower would not struggle to attract tenants the way that One Canada Square did for several years after it opened in 1991.
		The tower will be in walking distance of the City and would be twice as tall as its nearest rival, the 600ft International Finance Centre, formerly known as the NatWest Tower.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/10/29/ntow29.xml (568 words)

	Architronic v5n2.06f
		The bank initially planned a tower of 450 feet, but after it retained Richard Seifert as chief architect in 1964 he submitted a preliminary design at 647 feet.
		The tower houses their international operations, but the headquarters remains in the older, classical building behind the Bank of England.
		In the late 60s British Rail, with Richard Seifert as architect, proposed a 407 foot tower in the forecourt of the newly rebuilt Euston Railway station, a third of a mile to the east of Euston Centre.
	architronic.saed.kent.edu /v5n2/v5n2.06f.html (1155 words)

	The high-rise pages : Amateur pictures from my private collection
		NatWest was the tallest building in the UK before completion of Canary Wharf Tower.
		Tower Bridge, Saint Paul's Cathedral and the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament.
		The Clock Tower is known as 'Big Ben', wich actually is the name of the clock that is situated in the upper part of the tower.
	www.xs4all.nl /~hnetten/amateur.html (694 words)

	Guardian \| Green skyscraper looms for Londoners
		Plans for the 49-storey, circular 180m (590ft) structure, unveiled yesterday suggest that the Vauxhall tower will become as much of a landmark as the NatWest tower or Canary Wharf.
		Standing on semi-derelict ground on the south bank of the Thames, it would be London's 10th tallest building, 55m (180ft) lower than the tallest tower at Canary Wharf five miles to the east.
		If built the tower will compete in the new London "green skyscraper" league table with a projected "bioclimatic skyscraper" expected to be built next year at Elephant and Castle, south London, by Malaysian architect Ken Yeang, and Norman Foster's 41-storey "erotic gherkin" planned for the City, both of which are billed as ecologically sensitive.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4319691-103690,00.html (401 words)

	Natwest tower
		The tower was extensively damaged by an IRA bomb several years back and is now just being re-inhabited.
		The tower taken from the roof The Royal Bank of Scotland in Lombard Street
		A view down the river (Thames) to the Tower of London and Tower Bridge
	www.boilerbill.freeuk.com /Natwest__tower.htm (162 words)

	Cloud-capped towers Spectator, The - Find Articles
		When it blew up the Baltic Exchange, the chairman of the Stock Exchange was asked whether the bomb had been meant for his own address.
		His reply was less than tactful: `Have you ever met an Irishman who could read a map?' His tower would not have been mourned, but the Baltic was a marble temple of Edwardian commerce.
		Strings were pulled to get this design through the planning procedure, after Swiss Re, the insurer, said that it would move into the City in a big way if it could have a suitably grand tower to live in.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200009/ai_n8921122 (192 words)

	Modern Architecure - Swiss Re Tower (The Gherkin) - London Tourist Guide
		The latest addition to London's skyline, the swiss tower was designed by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster.
		Standing 41 stories tall, and affectionately known as the Gherkin, it is the second tallest structure in the city after the Natwest Tower.
		Located in the heart of the city, surrounded by quaint little churches and next to the dominating Lloyds building, it is a must for any city tour.
	www.london33.com /touristinfo.php?contentid=198 (174 words)

	MICHAEL PEAD :: Photos of the River Thames
		The Oxo Tower - built as a power station in the 1920s - was later used for the manufacture of Oxo beef stock cubes and transformed into an art deco design by the company's architect Albert Moore.
		Planning permission to erect an illuminated Oxo sign on the tower was refused, although just by coincidence the tower was built with windows that resembled the shapes of an "o" and "x"!
		The current London Bridge is formed of three concrete spans, built by contractors John Mowlem from 1967 to 1972, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on March 17 1973.
	www.michaelpead.co.uk /photography/london/thames.shtml (793 words)

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