London's Tulip Tower, Poster Child for Unsustainable Design, Stays Dead


The Norman Foster-designed restaurant-on-a-stick taught many lessons.

Nov 15, 2021

The Tulip was slated to be the tallest building in London: a thousand-foot tall observation tower that would sit next to the Gherkin. The developers described it as: "[The] centrepiece of a new innovative hub for culture, business and learning supported by technology. A unique destination to celebrate London and the best in British innovation."

It was designed by Foster + Partners, a British architectural design and engineering firm that are known to be pioneers in sustainable design. According to the design brief: "The Tulip’s soft bud-like form and minimal building footprint reflects its reduced resource use, with high performance glass and optimised building systems reducing its energy consumption."

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