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Hi D&D,

Who was the architect of the tower, have you visited any of their other buildings?

Architects will typically reuse details that they become familiar with, by looking at the projects that still stand you may be able to get an idea of the design intent behind this building. They are typically pressured into making projects cost less by the client, but often the drive for aesthetics comes from the themselves.

Good luck with you investigation, i'm interested to read the article when its published.

Thanks for this answer.

In London, what level of renovation triggers having to bring a building into full compliance? In the USA adding the cladding to the exterior would likely not have triggered a full rehab/bringing the building to current code or getting variances for the things that cannot easily be brought into compliance. However, if you start renovating the interior it would be likely that you would have to add sprinklers, standpipes and two means of egress at the very minimum. Had there really never been any sort of interior renovation since these things became standard?

Thanks for responding!

Whats the name or address of the other building?