Stand tall

摘要

Compared with many of the world's great cities, London's skyline is rather dull. Its Georgian and Victorian town houses are elegant, but in panorama the "Big Smoke" can seem a jumble of low-rise sprawl, dotted with functional, 1960s concrete boxes. Only Canary Wharf and a few towers elsewhere—notably a i8om-tall priapic construction in the City known as the "Gherkin"-break the monotony. Slowly but surely, however, skyscrapers are ornamenting the skyline, as London's commercial-property market returns to life.