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.