When was the strata tower built

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The first building in the world with integral wind turbines, it also sets a new benchmark in terms of environmental strategy. The design is very specific to the scheme, its location and addresses considerations at both local and at wider city scale and context. With apartments, Strata SE1 will be home to more than 1, residents.

This CO2 reduction is the equivalent of emissions from energy that the apartments will use over four years. An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens. The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good.

Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways. New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. The jumbo turbines each have five A skyscraper is an energy-greedy building form, both in terms of construction, and the power needed to take people to their front doors in a lift. But the turbines have barely moved, according to its new residents.

They also claim the single boiler down the side of the building is overheating their flats. The cold and hot water pipes flow next to each other.

I only moved in two weeks ago and I am not enjoying it. And it cuts a striking figure. The outer facades are clad in a white, metal fascia which contrasts sharply with the inner tower and the series of black, jagged, vertical window bays sliced into its surface. The structure will eventually be topped by three giant five-bladed wind turbines hence the mystery holes.

However, fears concerning the noise and vibration they will potentially generate have already led to possible plans to switch them off at night.

Despite the noble environmental intentions behind the turbine docks, they and the mechanical articulation of the profile and facade evoke a cartoonish theatricality that recalls the stylised imagery of sci fi and eighties post-modernism.

Such an indulgent visual palette may have proved more successful had it been realised with greater subtlety. London is dynamic enough to embrace contrast and spontaneity. But when visual gimickry imposes a ft barcode onto the cityscape, it is perhaps time for statement to be tempered by sensitivity.

Certainly, Strata has already provoked fiercely divided opinions, and it is not difficult to see why. It stands out not only because of its height, but also because, unlike in the City, it is the only tower in this part of London. In PR terms, Strata has been undeniably effective in raising the profile of the area.

And not before time. Neglected by planners, battered by the Luftwaffe and derided as a symbol of post-war architectural failure, Elephant and Castle urgently needs talent, investment and marketing to transform it into a successful model of urban living.