The Architecture Club are launching a competition to find London’s best buildings of the last 50 years. The club wants to celebrate the exciting architectural developments that have taken place in the city during the last five decades.
They will then showcase pictures and photos of the buildings and at the Mall Galleries, near Trafalgar Square. The exhibition is planned to co-incide with the London Festival of Architecture, on June 19th – June 26th 2010. (more…)
Reports this week show that city commercial occupiers are ready to sign on over 250,000 sq ft of office space. This is yet another signal of the strong start to the year London’s office space market has had.
Markit, a financial services firm are currently agreeing terms on British Land’s Ropemaker, a 586,000 sq ft EC2 site. They are set to sign a lease on 80,000 sq ft of the premises, with an option to extend to an extra 20,000 at a later date. (more…)
Planning applications for the £200 million redevelopment of part of Regent Street have been submitted by The Crown Estate. Two blocks on the west side of Regent Street, between Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus, known as W4 and W5 (south) will create around 300,000 sq ft of office and retail space.
The Crown Estate took ownership of the two blocks after an exchange in properties in 2007. They took the blocks from Pollen Estates in exchange for four blocks in Savile Road. (more…)
The future of a trio of towers planned in Waterloo as part of a major regeneration scheme is now in doubt after plans were rejected last year following a public inquiry. The 1.5 million square foot redevelopment of the Elizabeth House site were turned down in October as secretary of state, John Denham, felt that they did not not fit in with the rest of the area.
John Denham argued that the towers would “materially detract from the size and importance of Big Ben by virtue of their bulk and disturbing aspects of design.” The three towers were often nicknamed the Three Sisters, although some saw them more as the ‘Ugly Sisters’. (more…)