Tall Buildings

27 June 2023

NLA London Tall Buildings Survey 2023 with VU.CITY

This fly-through video created with VU.CITY gives an idea of the tall buildings in the pipeline, completed, under construction or where planning has been granted.

Tall Buildings

26 June 2023

Going tall with timber

In this webinar, we hear about three global projects that are experimenting with the use of timber as a material for tall buildings. What lessons can London learn?

Tall Buildings

16 April 2021

NLA Tall Buildings Survey: The key results

Peter Murray talks to Stuart Baillie, Partner and Head of Town Planning at Knight Frank. Stuart led the team that produced the statistics for NLA’s Annual Tall Buildings Survey launched on April 15th....

Tall Buildings

15 April 2021

London Tall Buildings Survey 2021 – Report launch

This webinar heard from research partner Knight Frank presenting the new tall buildings pipeline and other key contributors about the changing landscape for high rises in the capital.

Tall Buildings

15 April 2021

Adding to the cluster

Patrick Wong, founder and CEO of Tenacity, tells Peter Murray of his confidence in the City of London. “The opening of Crossrail will be a gamechanger” he says.

Tall Buildings

13 April 2021

Tall Buildings Survey 2021

Accompanying NLA's London Tall Buildings Survey, which has just launched, a fly-through video made with Programme Supporters VU.CITY.

Tall Buildings

04 March 2021

Intuitive interface

From cultural regeneration in Walthamstow to using CLT on the South Bank, Fred Pilbrow talks about the varied work of his practice. He tells Peter Murray of his enthusiasm for draughtsmanship and of t...

Tall Buildings

26 February 2021

Putting a stop to towers

“We should have a moratorium on tall buildings” Barbara Weiss, co-founder of the Skyline Campaign tells Peter Murray. Barbara is principal of Barbara Weiss Architects, working in the residential, heal...

Tall Buildings

04 December 2020

Building tall with MMC

Jane Richards is Head of Building Structures at WSP. She leads a large team of some 500 structural engineers and has a particular interest and expertise in high rise building and in modular constructi...

Tall Buildings

27 November 2020

Building the tallest modular tower in the world

Mike De’Ath, partner at HTA Design, recently published a report on MMC written with Mark Farmer based on the practice’s experience in delivering modular projects including the tallest modular tower in...

Tall Buildings

20 May 2020

High density living - what next for tall buildings in London?

Presenting the NLA London Tall Buildings Survey 2020, this webinar heard from the research team about the survey findings, followed by a discussion about the possible impact that COVID-19 might have o...

Tall Buildings

21 April 2020

Londons Tall Buildings 2020

As part of the 2020 Londons Tall Buildings Survey, this videos summarises the key findings from the report. We examine the pipeline of towers due to be built in London, the 60 that reached completion...

Tall Buildings

21 April 2020

Stuart Baillie on London's tall buildings

Peter Murray talks to Stuart Baillie, Head of Planning at Knight Frank about the NLA Tall Buildings Report 2020, which looks at the future of tall buildings in London and identifies key trends emergin...

Tall Buildings

04 March 2019

NLA London Tall Buildings Survey 2019

See the future skyline of London as we fly East-West along the river Thames and view the pipeline of tall buildings (20 storeys and over) coming to London. Drawing fr...

Tall Buildings

07 April 2017

Tall Buildings in London - Watch the full event

Find out the latest trends in the capital’s pipeline: where are new tall buildings coming forward, and what impact are they having in delivering future homes and infrastructure...

Tall Buildings

20 May 2015

Tall Buildings

Following pioneering research conducted by NLA and GL Hearn in 2012, now ongoing, this film illustrates how London's skyline is changing as the capital is developed more densely...