Network Rail and Hines are defying the recession by pressing on with their development on London’s Cannon Street, EC4.
The project, dubbed Cannon Place, consists of 400,000 square feet of space, including 8 storeys of office space above a new railway concourse and tube station entrance. A few weeks ago they released new images of the building which they said “bucked the trend” by being one of the only new office buildings to open in 2011. The current train station at Cannon Street is one of the busiest in the UK, serving 95,000 City workers a day and is in desperate need of a transformation. (more…)