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Britain's tallest block started

Work has started in the City of London on Bri- tain's tallest office block, the 52-storey headquar- ters for the National Westminster Bank. The pro- ject is estimated to cost some £25 million.

The 182m high tower will rise from a courtyard and will be surrounded by a number of low blocks. It has an irregular shape plan with a central core

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containing lifts, staircases and lavatories, enclosed by three linked wings containing the office accom- modation.

The wings will be faced with vertical stainless steel ribs at 1.5m centres with bronze tinted glass windows and bronze coloured spandrels.

Structure of the tower will be based on a rein- forced concrete core carrying three cantilevers at 12th, 21st and 34th floor levels. Each of these can- tilevers is twice the height of a normal floor and will contain the air conditioning and mechanical services.

Around the periphery of the tower the inter- mediate floors will be carried on steel columns at 3m centres supported by cantilevers and concealed within alternate ribs of the facade.

Completion of the scheme is scheduled for 1975-6. Architects are R. Seifert & Partners, con- sulting engineers are Pell Frischmann & Partners, and quantity surveyors are C. E. Ball & Partners and Thompson & Alexander.

Far East BUILDER, July 1971 Page 12

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