August 2009 Archives

10 Trinity Square

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 This is 10 Trinity Square and it used to be the HQ of the Port of London Authority.

 

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US tycoon Stan Thomas plans to convert it to a 121 bed hotel and more interestingly from a residential aspect the conversion will also include 30 flats.

 

St Swithins

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There's a little lane just off Cannon Street in the City called St Swithins that looks like this:

 

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Doesn't look like much and there are far grander streets in the square mile, but St Swithins is special. The building on the left, currently under construction will total 140,000 sq ft net office space and it'll have a sky garden on the roof which is nice but not that unusual. What makes New Court on St Swithins Lane so special is not the building itself but the occupier. The family has built its London headquarters twice before on this site, this one was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas. I can confidently predict that the fit-out will be superb considering that the family name is Rothschild.

Seizure

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Here's a novel use for abandoned flats. Make the building watertight... then pour 80,000 litres of copper sulphate solution down the chimney and leave for a couple of weeks. Why? Because it's art, that's why.

 

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This is "Seizure" by Roger Hiorns. It's free, open to the public until November 2009 (extended by popular demand), you'll find it just off the New Kent Road at 151 Harper Road and I for one will be going.


  

Eco Village Revisited

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Yesterday at the proposed site of Kew HQ and the Eco Village continues to expand.

 

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Bell Green Gas Works

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This is the site of the Bell Green Gasworks in Sydenham.

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It's a big site (hence the multi-shot-wide-angle thing) but has lain unused since gas production stopped way back in 1969. Circle Anglia purchased the site from Castlemore in May 2008 and plans to build 178 units (113 private and 65 affordable) on the site.

Picture Quiz 2

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Hot on the heels of Picture Quiz 1 (October 2007) - This is Picture Quiz 2. Where are they and what are their names?

 

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The property industry related prize awaits...

 

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One development, two designs

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Barratt hedges its bets at the Horseferry Road Magistrate's Court development with both modern and classical designs. Has this got anything to do with the Chelsea Barracks debacle, I wonder?

 

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Building Design has the full story.

 

 

Q

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This is a wide angle (sort of) shot of Circle Anglia's proposed development in Enfield. It's one of our most northerly sites, about half a mile from the M25.

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The curious thing about this one is that the entire site was to be developed in two phases by St James Homes. The first phase, named Q Waterside was completed over a year ago, and as far as I could make out yesterday, all 98 units are now occupied. There were to be a further 225 private units on the site, but earlier this year this final element was sold to Circle Anglia who intends to build them for social housing. So what started off as a predominantly private development looks as though it'll end up being mostly social. I suspect we'll be seeing quite a lot of this kind of tenure swap in the future.

Site Visits

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Every 4 months we at London Residential Research visit and photograph every residential site in London (over 5 units in the central boroughs, over 10 units in the outer ones) which is either under construction or at permission. Each one of the pictures below represents one of those site visits...

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...each one involved someone getting on a train, going on the underground...

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...driving a car, riding a bike...

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...or just plain walking to visit it.

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We visit over 3,000 individual developments per cycle which is nearly 10,000 every year, and if all that sounds like I'm blowing our own collective trumpet ... it's probably because I am.

Harold

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On page 9 of this week's Estates Gazette there's an advert by the London Borough of Havering who is seeking a development partner for its Harold Hill Ambitions project.

 My first thought was that this had something to do with the Countryside Properties scheme down the road at Harold Wood hospital. It doesn't.

Harold Hill Ambitions is a 20 year plan to spruce up the area, which includes building new housing stock, 240 units to be precise, on Gooshays Road, which, from the air, looks like this at the moment:

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The Heron Again

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Well over half way and so high it's almost impossible to count the floors.

Kew HQ

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Last June I blogged about this site in Brentford:

 

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This is St George's  proposed Kew HQ development site, just by Kew Bridge...and it's getting bigger:

 

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Strata

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This is Brookfield Multiplex's Strata development down the Elephant & Castle a few days ago. It's topped out and currently looks like this:

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 But give it a few more months and its unique features, three wind turbines on the roof (already taking shape) will become more apparent and will finally look like this:

 

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Home Alone

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This is The Oasis Tower One condominium in southwest Florida, a development that would be utterly unremarkable were it not for the Vangelakos family who live on the 11th floor.

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The family from New Jersey bought their flat 4 years ago, off-plan in the middle of the housing boom, as did many others. However, when the bubble burst, the majority of the tenants walked away, sacrificing their deposit rather than buying the units and risk falling into negative equity. All the others who did complete transferred to another building owned by the same developer, all apart from the Vangelakos family. They are the only people in this 23 storey, 200 unit building. Bereft of neighbours the closest they get to human interaction is the automated voice in the lift.

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Rollover

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This would have been pure demolition genius if it was on purpose...trouble is it wasn't, the BBC has the story.

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