Tall Buildings Magazine - Issue 9

Issue 9 Winter 2025 £9.95

Confidence built in: Transforming the warranty experience through clarity, collaboration and customer care Pg24: Planning for growth

Pg32: Stepping up to the challenge

Pg42: Engineering the sky

Pg56: The living tower

Tom Sleigh, Planning Chair for the City of London, discusses urban renewal and his pledge to ‘never build boring’

Make Architects and Core Five team up to explore the impact of the second staircase regulation

DeSimone Consulting Engineering examines how structural ingenuity shapes the world’s tallest buildings

50 Fenchurch Street is set to redefine sustainable urban development in the City of London

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Tall Buildings Magazine - Issue 9

Published on Nov 27, 2025

Radar Media Ltd

As we close another year for the UK’s tall buildings sector, this edition arrives at a pivotal moment for our industry. The landscape continues to evolve rapidly – driven by tightening regulations, shifting market dynamics and an urgent need for sustainable, forward-thinking design solutions. This issue tackles head-on the regulatory challenges reshaping how we conceive, design and deliver tall buildings. Claire King from Fenwick Elliott provides essential legal context on the second staircase requirement – perhaps one of the most significant regulatory shifts affecting our sector next year. Complementing this on page 32, Make Architects and Core Five demonstrate how strategic design responses to this legislation can actually recover efficiency losses and boost returns by 5-15%, proving that regulatory constraints need not stifle innovation or profitability. Beyond compliance, we explore the broader forces transforming Britain’s skyline. In our Market Intelligence focus on page 28, Siobhan Harris reveals how

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