city of london is the best skyscraper district on earth because seemingly the only planning rule they have is “you can build whatever you want so long as it looks stupid and different to everything else”. it works so well!
The actual reason, which is also a bit zany, is there are multiple "protected views" of St Paul's cathedral, and new skyscrapers have to get out of the way of those views. So you get weird bent buildings literally leaning out of the way so as to not spoil somebody's insta
yep I mean that’s why the cheesegrater looks like that, but there is also a generally tendency to make them all a bit insane looking. I mean look at the Lloyd’s building
