New eastern tower for canary wharf?
ANOTHER tower could be about to sprout up on the eastern end of the Canary Wharf estate.
Canary Wharf Group (CWG) has submitted an application for a 23-storey development at 25 Churchill Place, which could house around 4,000 employees.
It is the last site within the original estate masterplan to be developed.
The 0.36 hectare plot has existing planning permission for a 61,300 square metre development under the original Enterprise Zone consent for Canary Wharf in 1982, but CWG has bid to increase the height of the building from 80.77 to 130 metres above UK sea level. Site preparations and piling have been completed.
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) has drawn up an environmentally-friendly design for an 80,535 square metre development following CWG’s discussions with Tower Hamlets Council last year.
It features a sculpted tower with cut-away corners and provides eight basement car parking spaces and a minimum of 138 cycle bays.
KPF designed the neighbouring 80.77 metre tower at 20 Churchill Place, which will serve as State Street’s new London headquarters from autumn this year.
In a design statement submitted to Tower Hamlets Council, the applicant argued a taller office building would “assist the transition in massing between Canary Wharf and the proposed Wood Wharf development to the south east�.
It said: “Having been approached by a number of potential tenants seeking more space than the planning consented envelope permits, Canary Wharf undertook a detailed study of the impact of increasing the height of the development and concluded that a higher tower would sit comfortably within the Canary Wharf cluster.�
View the application here.
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Not another box for the Wharf! Cut-away corners or not, this is just another example of the overwhelmingly bland architecture that has made CW a realy missed opportunity.
The Isle of Dogs is marshland.
If too many more highrise tower blocks are built, we should perhaps rename it Atlantis!
It's a stylish design, I like it.
This better be a bolder design than the dreadful HSBC tower.. I now work in the city and its a far more dynamic and cosmopolitan place to work. Even though I live in Limehouse I find I use CW for Waitrose shopping mainly. CW is devoid of anything interesting unless you enjoy an underground suburban high street full of too many Boots and Pret outlets. Its not just the architecture where they have missed an opportunity but the choice of independent retailers. More London and the southbank are proving far more interesting places to live and work - architecturally and culturally. Thank god for my local pub!
Cant we have something like the gherkin, shard of glass or bishopsgate tower in Canary Wharf...? If you look at what the city will look like in 2012 it looks MUCH more interesting an unique! CW could quite easily be a "new world" concoction - which is great, but we're british dammit.. we do everything different! lol! 1000ft pyramids, gherkins and helter skelters is what we need!