Breakkie Anyone?

I'd like to say that it's been chaos in my office yesterday as owners from other high rise in London were calling in to know if their buildings would have the same problems.

Not a good day to be a Building consultant. (or Architect Viñoly)

I was going to ask your opinion on that. I'm guessing it's possible?

Definitely. There's laws in other countries to limit light reflectance of glazing. Maybe we need one in the UK too

"When it was spotted on a second design iteration, we judged the temperature was going to be about 36 degrees," he said. "But it's turned out to be more like 72 degrees. They are calling it the 'death ray', because if you go there you might die. It is phenomenal, this thing."

"When I first came to London years ago, it wasn't like this," he said. "Now you have all these sunny days. So you should blame this thing on global warming too, right?"

The artist, who goes by the forum username Bobdobbs, anticipated that the curvaceous facade of the 37-storey tower at 20 Fenchurch Street could at certain times of the year create light reflections up to 600% brighter that its surroundings buildings, using a simple 3D mock-up of the volume.

Who gave this thing planning permission?

Someone in local government with a fat wallet.

Remember the original plans were fine. It's the failure to stick to them that caused the problem.