This is the name of the Caxton Hall redevelopment by IVG Asticus. The architects are Foggo Associates and Lifshutz Davidson. This one is up to the fifth floor now:

http://www.foggo.com/Images/caxton_image1.jpg

http://www.foggo.com/Images/caxton_image2.jpg

Any pictures of it so far?

Taken today, just before the controlled explosion just round the corner in Storey's Gate:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/supertek/DSC04094.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/supertek/DSC04097.jpg

Not a fan, its too small for all this.... things

Is it just me or does it resemble centre point in those renderings?

Taken last week:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/supertek/DSC04156.jpg

Anyone got a completion date? I couldn't find one on the net.

This one has topped out and they are putting the glass cladding on the lower levels. The new public space will really help that area when it opens (Summer 2006 is my guess).

From St James Park today:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/supertek/IMGP0365.jpg

Taken last week:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/supertek/DSC04156.jpg

I worked at 55 broadway in 1984: the art deco building with the clock in the middle of this pic. When built, the buiding was decorated with statues of nude men, but women complained that their willies were too big, so they shaved them off!..you wouldnt get that today!

55 Broadway is seriously strange inside, glad I don't have to work there everyday.

I like 55 Broadway. It's a big, grand old building. In fact it was one of London's first ever midrises.

At the time it was built, it was one of the tallest office buildings in the city.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/55BroadwayLondon.jpg

There is a horrendous architectural nasty right next door to this, I think you can just see it to the right in that photo.

It was a 1970s version of Palestra, which well, sums up how we'll feel about that in thirty years.

Isn't the building you're referring to the old home office building? The one that looks like a prison?

The Home office is just in shot and it does have an overhang like palestra as yo can see

One of the naked men statues with weeny weeners I mentioned earlier is in shot over the door slightly to the left below that black arch.

I worked on the third floor and on really special occasions we would eat on the 10th floor where they would, on even more special occasions, offer scampi and chips......how I miss class!

The Old Home office is undergoig a £100 million referb for the Department of Constitutional Affairs. Skanska now have a tower crane on site. Completion in 2007.

I like 55 Broadway

Me too it's a great building, it's a shame London didn't get more buildings of this scale in the 20s and 30s. Im probably gunna get slated for this, but i kinda like the old home office building, I'm developing a bit of a taste for some brutalist architecture, at least it's a bit daring unlike most 60s and 70s dross.

50 Queen Annes Gate today:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/supertek/DSC00031.jpg

Me too it's a great building, it's a shame London didn't get more buildings of this scale in the 20s and 30s. Im probably gunna get slated for this, but i kinda like the old home office building, I'm developing a bit of a taste for some brutalist architecture, at least it's a bit daring unlike most 60s and 70s dross.


I have to say I do too, its part of my life and it has the dimesions of a governemant building of an immensly vast and wealthy country. It also reminds me of a hotel in Washington DC.

More to the topic though, unusually for me...I miss Caxton Hall! That was quite grand.

Caxton Hall is still there, on the Caxton Road side. They are converting them into appartments. They demolished some of the buildings behind it for the Asticus tower.

Does anyone have a picture of Caxton Hall?

Caxton Hall is still there, on the Caxton Road side. They are converting them into appartments. They demolished some of the buildings behind it for the Asticus tower.

Oh thats great news..thanks! Its been ages since I have been down that way.