The Tulip

The Tulip is a new building planned, if approved this project will take five years to complete, beginning construction in 2020 and will finish in 2025. It will have a 305.3metre tall tower (3ft short of the Shard, the UK’s tallest tower), topped with a 12 storey glass viewpoint perched on top of a concrete stem.

It was designed by Foster and Partners and is planned to be built alongside the Gherkin in London. It will feature internal slides and transparent pods running on the outside of the building for visitors to ride in, weirdly the tower will be just a visitors’ attraction without any office space. Around 20,000 free visits for state school children will be offered each year and the viewing tower would be competing against similar paying attractions in the area offered by The Shard and the London Eye.

By Omar S