The Vortex Tower was the working name of a London skyscraper designed by Ken Shuttleworth's Make Architects . The building would have risen to a height of 300 metres (980 ft)[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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