The Vortex Tower was the working name of a London skyscraper design by Make Architects , a London-based business headed by Ken Shuttleworth . The building would have risen to a height of 980 feet (300 m)[1] with 70 floors. The Vortex Tower was proposed for the edge of the City of London outer eastern fringe,[citation needed ] but was never built.
The planned shape of the Vortex Tower was a hyperboloid of revolution . The structure would have twisted into a spiral shape with a tapering centre and wide base. The project was based on a different concept, with rotation enabling the use of leaning columns as straight structural elements of hyperboloid .
Shuttleworth expressed surprise when the design was compared to that of the similar Kobe Port Tower , built in Japan in 1963.
He said "I haven't seen it before and it was not a source of inspiration for the Vortex." and noted that the Kobe designers "did not use the full envelope of the building", and that the towers would be different colours.[2]
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Buildings over 100 metres in the United Kingdom
Under construction
Birmingham Liverpool London
One Nine Elms East (200m)
The Madison (184m)
Vauxhall Square North (168m)
Vauxhall Square South (168m)
One Nine Elms West (161m)
Heron Quays West 2/One Bank Street (147m)
Canada Water Building C4 (140m)
Heron Plaza (135m)
101 George Street, Croydon (135m)
Two Fifty One (134m)
The Atlas Building (134m)
Keybridge Lofts (128m)
Nine Elms Point (126m)
One Crown Place South (123m)
The Stage Shoreditch (115m)
One Casson Square, Southbank Place (113m)
Ram Quarter Residential Tower (113m)
One Crown Place North (106m)
Upper Riverside (102m)
Stratford Central (101m)
Manchester
Colliers Yard (155m)
The Blade (154m)
The Circle (154m)
Viadux Tower 1 (136m)
Victoria Residence Tower 1 (119m)
Union Living, St John's Tower 1 (113m)
Irwell Tower (110m)
Anchorage Gateway, Anchorage Quay (101m)
Sheffield
Approved
Belfast
Bedford Square Phase 2 (105m)
Birmingham
100 Broad Street (193m)
One Eastside (155m)
Great Charles Street (126m)
St Joseph's Eastside (123m)
211 Broad Street 'Barcode' (117m)
Boerma Tower (113m)
Exchange Square Phase 2 (111m)
Cardiff Leicester
Westbridge Hotel Tower (117m)
London Manchester
Trinity Islands Tower 1 (183m)
One Heritage Tower (173m)
Trinity Islands Tower 2 (169m)
Student Castle Tower 1 (168m)
Cotton Quay Tower 1 (158m)
Trinity Islands Tower 3 (146m)
Downing Living Tower 1 (139m)
St Michaels's Tower 1 (135m)
Plot C, Greengage (129m)
Angel Meadow Park (128m)
Colliers Yard Tower 2 (126m)
Cotton Quay Tower 2 (123m)
Trinity Islands Tower 3 (120m)
10-12 Whitworth Street (117m)
The Gasworks Tower 1 (107m)
Sheffield
Proposed
Birmingham
The Octagon (155m)
The Irish Centre, Digbeth (150m)
Axis Square Tower 2 (100m)
Glasgow
Savoy Centre Towers (110m)
Leeds
CEG Southbank Tower 1 (136m)
Liverpool London
Quay House (235m)
North Quay Tower 1 (222m)
North Quay Tower 2 (212m)
North Quay Tower 3 (203m)
Vauxhall Cross Island (175m)
The Goodsyard (166m)
One Park Place (162m)
Project Skylines (160m)
Stratford Waterfront Tower 1 (160m)
Stratford Waterfront Tower 2 (160m)
225 Marsh Wall (158m)
30 Marsh Wall (139m)
82 West India Road (136m)
East Village E20 Tower 1 (135m)
East Village E20 Tower 2 (135m)
Cuba Street Tower 1 (134m)
20 Ropemaker Street (129m)
Cherry Park Tower 1 (121m)
Elephant and Castle Town Centre Tower 1 (121m)
Mondial House (120m)
Elephant and Castle Town Centre Tower 3 (117m)
Borough Triangle (115m)
Rudolf Place (115m)
16-19 Hatfields/1-5 Paris Garden (110m)
The Culinary Quarter Tower 1 (110m)
North Quay Tower 4 (107m)
East Village E20 Tower 4 (103m)
Manchester
Trinity Islands Tower D1 (183m)
Park Place, 34 Great Jackson Street Tower 1 (172m)
Park Place, 34 Great Jackson Street Tower 2 (172m)
Plot F, Tower 1 (154m)
Plot F, Tower 2 (154m)
X1 Michigan Towers Tower 1 (127m)
Premier Inn Site Tower 1 (123m)
Northlight Tower (115m)
Gorton Street Tower, Greengate (112m)
X1 Michigan Towers Tower 2 (109m)
VITA, Water Street Tower (108m)
Port Street Tower, Piccadilly Basin (103m)
Middlewood Locks, Phase 4 Tower 1 (101m)
Proposed Cancelled/Stale proposal Never realized