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]
Buildings over 100 metres in the United Kingdom
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| Birmingham | - Octagon (155m)
- Glasswater Locks (123m)
- Cortland Broad Street (111m)
- Exchange Square Phase 2 (111m)
- South Central Tower (100m)
- Maker's Yard (100m)
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| London | - One Nine Elms East (200m)
- Harcourt Gardens (192m)
- The Madison (184m)
- Vauxhall Square North (168m)
- Vauxhall Square South (168m)
- One Nine Elms West (161m)
- Heron Quays West 2/One Bank Street (147m)
- Canada Water Building C4 (140m)
- Heron Plaza (135m)
- 101 George Street, Croydon (135m)
- Two Fifty One (134m)
- The Atlas Building (134m)
- Keybridge Lofts (128m)
- Nine Elms Point (126m)
- One Crown Place South (123m)
- The Stage Shoreditch (115m)
- One Casson Square, Southbank Place (113m)
- Ram Quarter Residential Tower (113m)
- One Crown Place North (106m)
- Upper Riverside (102m)
- Stratford Central (101m)
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| Belfast | - Bedford Square Phase 2 (105m)
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| Birmingham | - 100 Broad Street (193m)
- One Eastside (155m)
- The Tower Leaf (Irish Centre) (146m)
- Great Charles Street (126m)
- Martineau Galleries 2C (126m)
- 211 Broad Street 'Barcode' (117m)
- Beorma Tower (113m)
- Upper Trinity Street (102m)
- Lower Essex Square (100m)
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| Cardiff | |
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| Leicester | - Westbridge Hotel Tower (117m)
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| London | - Riverside South (237m)
- One Lansdowne Road East Tower (236m)
- Heron Quays West (198m)
- Riverside South (186m)
- Ludgate House (161m)
- 1 Merchant Square (150m)
- 20 Blackfriars Road Residential Tower (141m)
- Doon Street Tower (141m)
- 54 Marsh Wall (140m)
- Infinity Towers Building B (127m)
- Convoys Wharf Tower 1 (116m)
- Berwick Tower (115m)
- Quill (109m)
- Sampson House (108m)
- Infinity Towers Building B (104m)
- The Gateway Building (101m)
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| Manchester | - Student Castle Tower 1 (168m)
- Plot F Tower 1 (154m)
- Plot F Tower 2 (154m)
- Trinity Islands Tower 3 (146m)
- Angel Meadow Park (128m)
- Trinity Islands Tower 4 (120m)
- Vision Tower (117m)
- The Gasworks Tower 1 (107m)
- Port Street Tower, Piccadilly Basin (100m)
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| Salford | - Waterloo Place (173m)
- Cotton Quay Tower 1 (158m)
- Parkside at Colliers Yard (123m)
- Cotton Quay, Salford Quays Tower 2 (123m)
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| Sheffield | |
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| Birmingham | - Smallbrook Queensway 2 (180m)
- Curzon Wharf, Tower 1 (172m)
- Thorp Tower (170m)
- Smallbrook Queensway 3 (155m)
- Project Drvie (150m)
- HUB (Snowhill Plaza) (150m)
- Smallbrook Queensway 1 (140m)
- Curzon Wharf, Tower 2 (134m)
- Smithfield Tower (110m)
- Axis Square Tower 2 (100m)
- Warner's Fields (100m)
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| Glasgow | - Savoy Centre Towers (110m)
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| Leeds | - CEG Southbank Tower 1 (136m)
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| Liverpool | |
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| London | - 1 Undershaft (295m)
- Quay House (235m)
- North Quay Tower 1 (222m)
- North Quay Tower 2 (212m)
- North Quay Tower 3 (203m)
- Vauxhall Cross Island (175m)
- The Goodsyard (166m)
- One Park Place (162m)
- Project Skylines (160m)
- Stratford Waterfront Tower 1 (160m)
- Stratford Waterfront Tower 2 (160m)
- 225 Marsh Wall (158m)
- 30 Marsh Wall (139m)
- 82 West India Road (136m)
- East Village E20 Tower 1 (135m)
- East Village E20 Tower 2 (135m)
- Cuba Street Tower 1 (134m)
- 20 Ropemaker Street (129m)
- Cherry Park Tower 1 (121m)
- Elephant and Castle Town Centre Tower 1 (121m)
- Mondial House (120m)
- Elephant and Castle Town Centre Tower 3 (117m)
- Borough Triangle (115m)
- Rudolf Place (115m)
- 16-19 Hatfields/1-5 Paris Garden (110m)
- The Culinary Quarter Tower 1 (110m)
- North Quay Tower 4 (107m)
- East Village E20 Tower 4 (103m)
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| Manchester | - The Lighthouse (213m)
- Park Place, 34 Great Jackson Street Tower 1 (172m)
- Park Place, 34 Great Jackson Street Tower 2 (172m)
- Plot C, Crown Street Tower 1 (154m)
- Plot C, Crown Street Tower 2 (154m)
- 1 Bridge Street Tower 1 (147m)
- Plot C, Crown Street Tower 3 (139m)
- Plot C, Crown Street Tower 4 (139m)
- One Medlock Street Tower 1 (117m)
- Northlight Tower (115m)
- Great Northern Warehouse Tower 1 (112m)
- VITA, Water Street Tower (108m)
- Dulwich Street, Victoria North (102m)
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| Salford | - X1 Michigan Towers Tower 1 (127m)
- Trinity Point, Park Street Tower 1 (123m)
- Gorton Street Tower, Greengate (112m)
- X1 Michigan Towers Tower 2 (109m)
- Middlewood Locks, Phase 4 Tower 1 (101m)
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