National Geographic 08.2019

(Axel Boer) #1

Visitors take in the
view from the top of 20
Fenchurch Street, known
as the Walkie-Talkie.
Despite a controversial
design—a “bullying pres-
ence,” one critic called
it—in 2017 it sold for
$1.7 billion to a Hong
Kong firm, a record price
for a building in the city.

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