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London had been bracing itself for a 235-m-high skyscraper dubbed "the Cheesegrater," which gets its name from its distinctive wedge shape, designed by Lord Richard Rogers to stop it obscuring views of St. Paul's Cathedral. But faced with a slowing economy and shrinking demand for office space, developers British Land have pushed completion back until 2012 at the earliest. The delay may well be a relief for Prince Charles: he complained last year that the global boom in skyscraper-building had created a "rash of carbuncles" sweeping across historical cities such as the British capital.

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