An eleven storey elliptical tower building designed by Carey Jones Architects Ltd has today been proposed for Blonk Street over the River Don.

Hope the building looks something like 30 St Mary Axe (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100089) in London which looks stunning.

Obviously ours would be way smaller, lol!

http://sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/press/news/release.asp?akey=2296

Excuse my ignorance: what it an elliptical tower??

Originally posted by Sony
Excuse my ignorance: what it an elliptical tower??

It's like this: the gherkin (http://tinyurl.com/3w5z2)

Originally posted by Sony
Excuse my ignorance: what it an elliptical tower??

Elliptical means a oval or egg shaped, someone pleace correct me if I'm wrong!

Many thanks:thumbsup:
Not sure about the design though.. An egg box type of thing in 20 yrs time??

Originally posted by Fantomas
It's like this: the gherkin (http://tinyurl.com/3w5z2)

More like a but plug.

I prefer the Lloyds building as a "modern" building (though it's quite old now)

Originally posted by skyfitsboy
Elliptical means a oval or egg shaped, someone pleace correct me if I'm wrong!

It does, but I assumed in this instance that it meant the building would appear as an elipse when viewed from above.

Draw an elipse on a piece of paper, then imagine you are looking down on the building - that's what I thought it meant. So the building wouldn't need to look anything like Foster's gherkin!

i might be the only one, but I also quite like the London town hall 'leaning beehive' design on the South Bank.

Originally posted by Fantomas
It's like this: the gherkin (http://tinyurl.com/3w5z2)
Not exactly - that would be an ellipsoid (specifically a prolate spheroid (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProlateSpheroid.html)). skyfitsboy - egg-shaped would be ovoid.

I'm include to agree with Damon and suggest that elliptical simply means oval-shaped in cross-section.