London - Full Summary of Projects 11

[wjfox]

So many big regeneration projects kicking off right now... incredible.

[mulattokid]

Originally Posted by potto

The artist Antony Gormley has created 31 life-sized figures which will appear at London's vantage points

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/c...&nbwm=1&bbwm=1

not sure if the link will work but it is worth watching, go to the BBC sites Audio and Video section

Yes the link does work! I worry a bit about peoplethinking they are real....just as well they are quite high up though...big willy on em!

[henry]

One of the projects the mayor's office has been looking at this month:

http://thecreeksidevillage.co.uk/index.php

Architects are Squire and Partners. It should be close to the Broadway Malyan Greenwich Reach Project (http://www.broadwaymalyan.com/projec...egion=l&page=1) and Richard Roger's Convoy Wharf. All in all this area is set for quite a transformation over the next few years. It certainly needs it.

The proposal
1402 Creekside Village East (Greenwich & Lewisham)
Construction of four blocks ranging from 9 to 22 storeys and associated structures for 13,527 sq.m. commercial floorspace including cultural/dance space, archive, exhibition areas and associated facilities for Trinity Laban (9,000 sq.m.), workshop units and retail space and 438 residential units, together with associated access, highway improvements, underground car parking, works to the creek walls, landscaping and open space, cycle and footpath links.





Current site:


Location:

[DarJoLe]

Oh god, yes, that site by the Laban Centre is an embarrassment and I'm amazed it hasn't been snapped up and developed before now.

[london lad]

Couldn't find a thread for this. New Street Square is almost finished now.

Looks quite nice & the collection of buildings is an improvement on the post war mess much of this area was. It has also led to further development nearby as a couple of other post war offices are being demolished or about to be demolished.



http://www.newstreetsquare.co.uk/

[Madman]

lovely shot and facade there, who are the architects and developers?

[london lad]

Originally Posted by Madman

lovely shot and facade there, who are the architects and developers?

Bennets Associates & developers are Land Securities

[wjfox]

SwissRe is winning this by some margin.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=460255&page=4

[Tall Rog]

I guess you guys already know about this, but just in case you don't...

From FinExtra


JPMorgan has entered exclusive talks with property developer Hammerson over the construction of a one million square feet building on the site of the St Alphage House building owned by the City of London Corporation.

The new building will consolidate JPMorgan's investment banking operations in one location and house 5200 investment bankers. The facility will feature four trading floors, each measuring 72000 square feet - making them the largest in London.

JPMorgan's decision is seen as a victory for the Square Mile over Canary Wharf, the City's rival development in docklands which houses many investment banks including Citigroup, Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley.

JPMorgan - which already employs staff at seven sites around the City - had also been considering a site in Canary Wharf for its investment banking operations but opted to build in the Square Mile. A spokesperson for the Canary Wharf Group told reporters that a number of other firms are looking into developing on the site that was being considered by JP Morgan, as well as in other parts of the docklands.

Michael Snyder, chairman of the policy committee of the City of London Corporation, says: "This new building and JPMorgan's continued presence in the City will reinforce London's pre-eminent position as Europe's leading financial capital."

A planning application for the new building will be submitted later this year with an expected start on site during 2008.

Earlier this week British banking group HSBC said it has agreed a deal with Spanish property company Metrovacesa for the sale and leaseback of its head office building in Canary Wharf for £1.09 billion, making it the largest single property deal in UK history.

[mulattokid]

Many thanks! may I post this in the Riverside South thread?

[DarJoLe]

We've known about that for days.

[mulattokid]

F*** sake!

[DarJoLe]

Eugh. What a totally rubbish piece of journalism for the BBC.

Glimpse of future London skyline

The London skyline may look like this in 2010



A 3D image created by architects has shown what London's skyline will look like in 2010.

The software created by GMJ Designs shows the impact of planned skyscrapers, such as the 310m Shard, on the City of London.

The CityModel covers 36sqkm including Southwark, the City and the West End.

Unesco, the United Nation's cultural agency, has warned sights like the Tower of London are being blighted by the more and more high rise buildings.

It added it is on the verge of being placed on the United Nation's Heritage in Danger List.

Managing director of GMJ Designs, Didier Madoc-Jones, said: "It's a highly sensitive issue building new tall buildings in London because you have lots of protected historic buildings.

"All the fantastic new buildings that are going up in the City will have a massive impact on the skyline so at the planning stages it is incredibly important to visualise how these buildings are going to appear.

"Using our CityModel we are able to plot these buildings so that the planners and developers can rapidly understand what the proposals are."

The computer image of the 2010 London skyline shows the Shard, the 288m high Bishopsgate Tower, 224m tall Leadenhall and 242m Heron Tower.

[eXSBass]

Originally Posted by wjfox2002

SwissRe is winning this by some margin.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=460255&page=4

I voted for the Bank of China tower

[Cat man do]

Mmm, yes, specially as it (the London skyline) doesn't look a lot different to that now. Not even the Darleks.

[wjfox]

What is it with these BBC journalists? Bunch of ignorant morons.

[SELondoner]

That must be a 'before' image put up by the BBC by mistake, surely?

[potto]

you can see how far 20 Funchurch is from the river and the Tower

[aclifford]

It still has Mondial House on it and loads of gaps, isn't their already a model with all the proposed skysrapers at that architecture place in totenham court road? ....seems kinda pointless.

[Dan1987]

I'm not seeing any model with new skyscrapers? I'm just seeing a picture of the current skyline sans Limey