With the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat convening at the Barbican this week, we’ve been thinking about tall buildings and what determines their success.

As we try to densify our UK towns and cities to address the housing crisis, minimise travel, and create more sustainable places, tall buildings are becoming a fact of life.

Since the NLA Tall Building Survey launched in 2014, it has shown a consistent rise in the number of towers in the pipeline for London alone, shocking the media and general public.

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