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Design: Kohn Pederson Fox – KPF, Architects. This 38-storey tower is nicknamed due to its sharply faceted design. The 190m / 620ft high building will be the European headquarters for US insurance company WR Berkley.
Design: Foggo Associates Architects. Nicknamed The Can of Ham building this tower is being developed by TIAA Henderson Real Estate, and built by Mace. The small curvy skyscraper is to contain over 277,000 sqft of offices across 24 floors.
Postmodern Architecture in London: An article in The Guardian by Rowan Moore focusing on Postmodern buildings in London and increasing attempts to list those that remain.
Design: Heatherwick Studio / Arup. Yet more controversy…Lambeth Council councillors rebel against their leadership to formally call in the decision to hand over land saying it was unaccountable and not properly scrutinised.
Proposals to build a new state-of-the-art Centre for Music for the LSO: Government to provide £5.5m in funding for a full business case for the project while the City of London Corporation has agreed its willingness to make land available for the site.
London-based architecture studio Waugh Thistleton has unveiled the final designs for Bushey Cemetery, a United Synagogue Burial Site. The development has recently started on site and today the practice has released images and a fly-through video of the updated scheme.
Height of this tower design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop increases by 10%, to 254m. The skyscraper proposal at 31 London Street in Paddington is for Great Western Developments and Sellar Property Group.
Design: Wilmotte & Associés. A 49,000sqm office development on Argent’s 67 acre Kings Cross Central development developed by BNP Paribas Real Estate on behalf of AXA, already let to Google.
The London Borough of Hackney has granted planning consent for Shoreditch Highgate Hotel, located at 201-207 Shoreditch High Street, East London. The project is being developed by owner Highgate Holdings and designed by Gensler.
Design: BuckleyGrayYeoman. A deep-retrofit of an unloved mid-century factory building delivers major improvements to the streetscape and creates modern office spaces that has already attracted creative blue-chip tenants.
Smithfield buildings, Market architecture in central-east London – built environment Information – Smithfield London: building, history, photos, property
aLL Design architects. Plans submitted for a £6.6m residential tower in Vauxhall, located on the same street as Caruso St John’s recently completed gallery for Damien Hirst.
Design: BuckleyGrayYeoman. New 70,000 sq ft workspace at Henry Wood House for The Office Group, a leading provider of design-led flexible offices, meeting rooms and co-working spaces.
Studio C102 has completed the fit-out of the latest 1Rebel, a 8500sqft luxury gym located in the newly redeveloped Broadgate Circle, London.