Get Ready for The Cheese Grater, The Walkie Talkie, The Helter Skelter & The Scalpel
While the Shard steals most of the attention, three of the City’s daftly nicknamed skyscrapers are reaching noteworthy heights and a fourth is at planning…
The Walkie Talkie
Nicknamed the Walkie-Talkie because of its bulbous top. Due to be completed in the summer of 2014. The building will be 160 m (525 ft) tall, with 36 storeys.
![The Walkie Talkie The Walkie Talkie](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/20_Fenchurch_Street%2C_City_of_London.jpg)
The Walkie Talkie
The Helter Skelter
The Helter Skelter is suffering from funding problems and is expected to be finished by 2013/2014. On completion it will become the tallest building in the City of London and the second-tallest in both the United Kingdom and the European Union
Helter Skelter
The Cheese Grater
With its distinctive wedge-shaped profile the Cheesegrater will be 225 m (737 ft) tall, with 48 floors, when it is completed in 2014.
![The Cheese Grater The Cheese Grater](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Leadenhall_Building_Artist%27s_Impression.jpg)
The Cheese Grater
The Scalpel
The Scalpel is proposed for construction, if it gets the go head it will complete in 2017. The building will be 190 m (623 ft) tall, with 35 storeys.
![The Scalpel (ThisIsLondon) The Scalpel (ThisIsLondon)](https://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8162949.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/scalpal.gif)
The Scalpel (ThisIsLondon)