The 'Cheese Grater' - and an upside down demolition

If you’re of a nervous disposition, you may want to stay away from London’s Leadenhall Street for the time being, while the former P&O building located there is demolished from the bottom up. This seemingly bizarre deconstruction, which makes the structure in the City of London look like a massive game of Jenga at the point when it’s all getting a bit precarious, does have some method behind the madness: each floor was suspended from the one above it and therefore had to be taken down first.

In what seems like a bid to rename the city’s landmarks according to the contents of a kitchen cupboard, the tower that will appear in its place nearby the Gherkin has been nicknamed the cheese grater. Who would have thought it - but all this talk of architecture is making my mouth water.

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