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Jonathan Prynn

Battersea Power Station, Shard and Channel Tunnel make global top ten list of buildings

Battersea Power Station is the highest ranked London building. - (Sven Hansche)

Three British engineering triumphs, the Shard, Battersea Power Station and the Channel Tunnel, have made it onto a global “top ten” list of the most significant buildings and structures of the modern era on social media.

The survey, commissioned by study commissioned by the organisation behind the Tomorrow.Building World Congress in Barcelona, measured the number of times iconic new buildings and piece of infrastrucuture, ranging from skyscrapers to airports, were the subject of Google searches and Instagram mentions during September.

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