London’s second tallest building (after the Shard), a 62-storey skyscraper known as 22 Bishopsgate tower, will be opening in a few months’ time during the European summer.
The office building will be able to accommodate 12,000 workers, will house a fresh food market and London’s highest free public viewing gallery. It will have a a ‘wellbeing retreat and curated art walk.’ It will also have the fastest lifts in Europe, which travel at eight metres per second. It will hold the city’s highest climbing wall situated on the 25th floor along with a gym. The wall will, in fact, be a climbing window that will allow people to let their inner Spiderman out while they gaze at down at London from 125 metres above the ground.
According to Secret London, the building’s designers, PLP Architecture, imagined somewhere they would love to work and then built just that.
Not only does 22 Bishopsgate offer various lifestyle spaces, it’s pretty hi-tech too. The shape was designed to lessen the probability of wind tunnels on the ground. According to Wired.co.uk, the building’s ‘glass has a lower proportion of iron than usual allows 60 per cent more light into the building than standard glass does, while each office unit will be assigned its own IP address so that those within the unit can intelligently alter the blinds using an app specific to the building.’
Image: PLP Architecture
