The prospect of a large building site left dormant will no doubt concern the City of London Corporation, but a spokesman declined to comment on whether the authority would offer help to recruit tenants for the Pinnacle.
Work on the Westfield development started in 2004 but was halted in 2008 when the economy stalled, leaving a large building site in the city centre.
Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants Jennifer Potter Atlantic Books £19.99, pp464 In 1610, gardener John Tradescant arrived at Hatfield House, one of the largest building sites of England.
A leading recruitment firm has advised some of Britain's top construction companies to reclassify temporary staff on some of the UK's largest building sites as "unsupervised" in an effort to avoid a clampdown on a tax loophole.
Once dubbed the "world's largest building site", it contained – within a 30-mile perimeter – one fifth of the world's cranes.
These casting foundries hired themselves out to the large ecclesiastical building sites.
Our lithium-ion battery technology powers electric cars, and our advanced materials research promises to create new electrochemical storage systems to light, heat and cool large buildings, industrial sites and even small cities.
"Also, at work sites assembling very large structures such as building sites and assembling of aircraft / ships, workers are carrying out dangerous heavy work, and it is desired to replace these tasks with robot technology.
By a large construction site is a long, slightly shabby building, its brickwork worn with age.
Without the talent to fill all that new space, the region will become the world's largest, and emptiest, building site.The consultant-led, top-down approach that has given Dubai a "Culture Village" and a "Business Bay" (why not name them after great Islamic artists and scientists?) has proven less successful at promoting the risk-taking required to generate local talent.
