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London’s tallest skyscraper is to be built on what was formerly its most prominent stalled construction site after planners granted permission for a 62-storey, 278m-high tower at 22 Bishopsgate. Axa Investment Managers - Real Assets, the property unit of Europe’s largest insurer, won approval from the City of London borough to develop an office tower at 22 Bishopsgate near the skyscrapers nicknamed The Cheesegrater and The Gherkin. The 62-story building will have more than 1.4 million square feet of workspace, shops and restaurants as well as a public viewing gallery at the top. It will be developed on the site of the failed Pinnacle tower, which was halted in 2012, and is due to be completed in 2018. The base of what would have been the “Pinnacle” building, a curved glass skyscraper conceived before the financial crisis, has stood unused on a major City thoroughfare since plans stalled in 2012. base of  development But new backers, a consortium led by Axa In...