Architect Foster + Partners has lodged an appeal against a refusal to allow the go-ahead for the 305.3m-tall Tulip building in London.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan rejected plans for what would have been the tallest tower in the City of London.
The tower at 20 Bury Street was proposed by developer Safra Group and designed by Foster + Partners. It promised a visitor attraction offering skybridges, internal slides, an education facility at the top and gondola pods that move up and down the tower.
Khan’s veto of the project in July last year came after a decision in April by the City Corporation’s planning and transportation committee to approve the scheme.
Despite the earlier go-ahead for the Tulip, it attracted opposition from groups like Historic Royal Palaces and Historic England, which branded the building a “lift shaft with a bulge on top”.
Meanwhile, a report by the London Review Panel concluded the Tulip was not a “world class” building and therefore didn’t justify its height and prominence.
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