Posted on February 4, 2016 by Offices.org.uk
A NEW co-working space which has been developed in the former National Temperance Hospital in London is being officially opened today.
The scheme from the Camden Collective has been realised in the former Insull wing of the art deco hospital on Hampstead Road.
The hospital itself was built in the 1870s with the William Binnie-designed Insull Memorial Wing added in the 1930s after a $160,000 donation from Samuel Insull.
Now branded as the Collective Temperance Hospital, the project offers three floors of workspace with free hot desking facilities, meeting rooms and subsidised individual offices for startups in the creative industries.
The new facility, which has received funding from the Mayor of London, boasts cycle parking, wifi, boardrooms, lockers, 24 hour access and communal kitchen areas.
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Posted on January 20, 2016 by Offices.org.uk
A LANDMARK office building in London’s Victoria has achieved 100% occupancy.
Land Securities has announced the latest tenant at 62 Buckingham Gate which means the property is now fully let.
IT consulting company Ciber UK has signed a 10 year lease for the remaining 10,700 sq ft of office space at the building designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects.
Existing office tenants at 11-storey 62 Buckingham Gate, which completed in 2013, include Mediobanca, WorldRemit and Chime Communications.
Kaela Fenn-Smith, Head of Commercial at Land Securities, said: “We are really pleased that Ciber UK Ltd has chosen Victoria for its business location and we welcome them to 62 Buckingham Gate. We are delighted the building is fully let and Ciber adds another dimension to the variety of businesses in the building.”
62 Buckingham Gate is a mixed use development with 259,700 sq ft of office space and 15,600 sq ft of retail units at the ground and upper basement floors.
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Posted on January 18, 2016 by Offices.org.uk
70 FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze at offices in Chiswick in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The first floor and roof of the building at Strand-on-the-Green, overlooking the Thames, were badly damaged in the fire. Nobody was injured in the huge fire although a dozen local residents were evacuated for their safety.
The riverside offices, close to Kew Bridge, are the west London offices of talent agency James Grant Group.
A statement on the James Grant website said:
“We are sad to report that in the early hours of [Sunday] morning a fire broke out at our Kew Bridge office, London, causing serious damage to the building… Our sincere thanks go out to the emergency services who attended the site. They did an outstanding job of controlling the fire and limiting the damage as much as possible.”
Crews from Acton, Chiswick, Richmond, Heston, Ealing, Kingston, Kensington, Southall and Hammersmith fire stations attended the fire and had it under control by 4.30am.
Station Manager Carl St Paul who was at the scene said: “Our crews worked extremely hard in challenging conditions to get this fire under control and to stop it from spreading to neighbouring properties. Thankfully no-one was inside the office building when the fire broke out but around 12 people from homes close by were evacuated during the incident as a precaution.”
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Posted on January 11, 2016 by Offices.org.uk
SERVICED office space provider The Office Group has taken 45,000 sq ft of office space at 20 Eastbourne Terrace in Paddington, London.
The pre-letting is the first to be announced by developer Land Securities at the 18 storey office building which is currently being extensively refurbished.
The Office Group’s deal will see them take eight floors in the tower which is due for completion in April 2016. The refurbished property will include a café, collaboration and business lounge at ground floor, a roof garden, cycle storage facilities and showers.
Kaela Fenn-Smith, Head of Commercial at Land Securities, said: “We’re delighted that The Office Group has signed our first office pre-let. The flexible space The Office Group offers will be beneficial to our current and future customers in Eastbourne Terrace creating an exciting hub for businesses in the centre of Paddington.”
The Office Group has existing business centres across central London and also has sites in Bristol and Leeds.
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Posted on January 11, 2016 by Offices.org.uk
OFFICES in London that were once used by famed author Charles Dickens were hit by fire last week.
The London Fire Brigade were called out to a small electrical fire at a cafe in Wellington Street in Covent Garden.
It was from these offices that Dickens published his weekly magazine All The Year Round and kept private apartments from 1859 to the year of his death in 1870.
See the heritage Blue Plaque that marks the property in Wellington Street, London.
The property now houses a cafe on the ground floor with residential flats above.
Two fire engines and 10 fire fighters tackled the small fire in which there was no injuries.
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Posted on December 7, 2015 by Offices.org.uk
PROPOSALS for a mega-skyscraper in the City of London at 1 Undershaft have been unveiled.
The huge 73-storey tower would be 309 metres tall – the same height as the iconic Shard on the other side of the Thames. The building would trump the 278-metre tall 22 Bishopsgate development approved by planners last month.
Designs for the tower have gone display today at a public exhibition at the Bishopsgate Institute.
Nicknamed the Trellis, the new tower would have a public viewing gallery at the top and a new public square at the bottom. It would replace 118-metre tall St Helen’s Tower which was built at the site in the late 1960s.
The architect behind the Aroland Holdings-backed scheme is Eric Parry, responsible for other projects in the City including 10 Paternoster Square, 10 Fenchurch Avenue and 60 Threadneedle Street.
Parry commented, “1 Undershaft will create more of the quality office space that is desperately needed in the capital and will reconnect the city’s tall building cluster with the public.
“This building will set new standards for the City in terms of comfort, quality, environmental sustainability and putting the public at the heart of the tower.”
Final plans for 1 Undershaft will be submitted to the City of London Corporate for planning approbal next year.
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Posted on December 4, 2015 by Offices.org.uk
A BRAND new building offering over 120,000 sq ft of office space in London’s Shoreditch has been approved by local councillors.
Members of Hackney Council’s Planning Sub-Committee this week gave the green light to the proposals for the scheme at 201-207 Shoreditch High Street and 1 Fairchild Street.
The property is at the southern end of the “Shoreditch Triangle”, close to the London Borough of Hackney’s borders with Tower Hamlets and the City of London.
In addition to the creative office and co-working space, a 200-key hotel is planned with a skylounge at the top of the 106 metre tall building.
Developers HG Europe and Folgate Estates are behind the thirty-storey building, designed by architects Gensler The site, which was previously home to a theatre and cinema destroyed by a WWII bomb, is currently occupied by a wine merchants and a sauna.
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Posted on November 18, 2015 by Offices.org.uk
PLANNING permission has been granted for the tallest skyscraper yet in the City of London.
The City’s Planning and Transportation Committee gave the green light on Wednesday morning for the 62-storey development at 22 Bishopsgate.
2,033,034 sq feet of office space will be created at the scheme with retail units at the ground level and a restaurant, bar and public viewing gallery at the top.
The decision to grant planning permission comes three years after construction was halted on the Pinnacle project at the same site. Earlier this year a consortium led by AXA Real Estate purchased the site and a redesign by PLP architects was submitted to planners.
At 278 metres tall, the new 22 Bishopsgate will be over 40 metres taller than the Heron Tower, the current tallest building in the City. It will also be taller than One Canada Square in Canary Wharf and second only to the Shard, which stands at over 300 metres tall on the other side of the Thames by London Bridge.
Speaking after the committee’s decision, the City’s Chief Planning Officer Annie Hampson said: “This is a substantial high quality tower. 22 Bishopsgate exemplifies many of the qualities we are looking for in our landmark buildings – it is elegant, calm, and open to the public. A viewing gallery at the top will provide for workers, visitors, residents with the opportunity to look out over the City free of charge.
“Tall buildings in the City’s Eastern Cluster near transport hubs are an effective way of creating the increase in office space and employment needed for a growing London.”
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Posted on November 17, 2015 by Offices.org.uk
FIREWORKS were launched into the sky yesterday to mark the beginning of the end for the council’s old offices.
Built in the 1970s for what was then South Yorkshire Council Council, the office building is now being demolished in the first phase of a £100 million town centre revamp called Better Barnsley.
Councillor Roy Miller commented to the BBC: “This is the first major part of the demolition. We’ve been taking out some of the insides for some weeks now but now we’re going to actually start demolition.”
The demolition of the council offices is due to take eight weeks and then a temporary market structure will be erected in its place before a new market square is developed by 2019.
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Posted on November 12, 2015 by Offices.org.uk
SMOKE billowed in to the sky this morning as a fire broke out at an office building in Old Street, London.
Almost 60 firefighters and eight appliances from London Fire Brigade tackled the blaze at 148 Old Street which was previously the headquarters of Royal Mail.
26 calls were made to 999 as the fire took hold on five levels of the six storey, 1970s-built office building which is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment.
London Fire Brigade Station Manager Gareth Cook commented: “Crews worked hard to contain this blaze and to stop it from spreading. The main fire was concentrated around the building’s central lift shaft. This created a chimney effect, which is why smoke could be seen for miles around during the early stages of the incident.”
The 97,807 sq. ft office building was acquired in 2013 by Great Ropemaker Partnership – a joint venture between Great Portland Estates plc and The BP Pension Fund. Planning permission was given earlier this year to refurbish the property and add two new levels of office space.
In another incident today, businesses were evacuated after a WWII bomb was found by construction workers on a site at the junction of Commercial and Brushfield Streets near Spitalfields.
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