A fire was reported early this morning at an office black and restaurant in Shoreditch, East London.
100 firefighters are still battling the blaze in Tabernacle Street, 20 fire engines were called in to tackle the fire. The fire has spread across the first, third and fourth floor, and part of the roof is also on fire. It has been reported that the top floors have been completely hollowed out by fire. (more…)
The first tenant at the new Ealingcross office space scheme in London has been signed.
Ealingcross is based at 85 Uxbridge Road, Ealing in west London. It is owned by Neptune Land and Standard Life Investments’ Life Property Fund, represented by Montagu Evans and DTZ. It was completed last autumn, promising to bring West End standards of office space to west London. (more…)
Heron International, owned by Gerald Ronson, has submitted the planning permission for the much anticipated Heron Plaza development scheme.
The scheme, worth £500 million will sit in the heart of the City of London, near to Liverpool Street Station. It is the second and final phase of works by the adjacent Heron Tower. (more…)
BNP Paribas Real Estate has agreed terms for its headquarters move to 5 Aldermanbury Square.
The firm are reported to have signed for 35,000 sq ft of space for a move in autumn. The move is part of a company-wide initiative to base their Investment Solutions business in one building.
Their headquarters are currently based at 90 Chancery Lane, London and staff from both these offices and their Old Broad Street offices will be relocated to the new headquarters. They also have an office at 30 Charles II Street, which will be kept for its West End agency and management teams. (more…)
Have you ever wanted to have ago at redesigning the iconic skyline of London? Now’s your chance!
Hayes Davidson, an architecture visualisation and imaging company, have released a fun new tool on their website which allows people to play with the London skyline. (more…)
25 Churchill Place, the last available plot on the Canary Wharf estate, is having a new design produced.
News International were meant to be using the site, but they pulled out leaving the site undeveloped. The design is to be penned once more by KPF and will feature a 108 metre tower, a reduction from previous plans meaning there will be 71,169 sq m of office space. (more…)
Minerva, a commercial property developer based in London has finally returned to profitability.
The firm had recorded losses of £187 million last year, but have just reported H1 profits of almost £46 million. The key to this return to success is the thriving London office space and commercial property market. Their current property portfolio is now worth almost £1 billion, when it had previously fallen by 27% in the last 12 months. (more…)
US firm GMR Marketing is expanding globally and adding a London office to its international footprint.
The new office will be an ideal base for European operations for the New-Berlin, Milwaukee-based company. Vice-president of GMR’s Charlotte office, Tony Fowler will also move to London to manage operations there. They have also opened other offices in Europe, including Poland and Spain. (more…)
Pinsent Masons, a US law firm, have finished their search for a City of London office.
The firm will move in to offices at 30 Crown Place in 2011. The new office will be Pinsent Masons’ largest international office, comprising of around 197,000 sq ft in total at the sixteen storey building near Liverpool Street. (more…)
A new trend is emerging, which is helping freelancers and small businesses work together in business centres and working spaces.
THECUBE, London is helping push this emerging trend and make it the standard way of working for freelance and home-working professionals, where instead of being stuck alone at home or in the office, freelancers can share space, ideas and work closer together with each other. (more…)