KPF moves forward with office adaptive reuse project in London

An adaptive reuse project designed by global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) that would retrofit an existing 1980s office block in London is moving forward following approval from the City of London Planning & Transportation Committee. The project, located at 81 Newgate Street, includes a "deep retrofit" of the existing structure that will reposition the building as a "sustainable, mixed-use building that is embedded in the wider public life of the City as a new gateway destination into London’s ‘Culture Mile,'" the architects write. In a press release announcing the project, John Bushell, Design KPF Principal explains, “81 Newgate Street develops a number of reuse and transformation themes that KPF has been working on for a long time, from the World Bank in Washington DC, completed in 1996, to more recent projects in London, such as Unilever House, South Bank Tower and a collection of projects in Covent Garden." Bushell adds, "The mixture of reuse and invention generates ...

KPF moves forward with office adaptive reuse project in London

An adaptive reuse project designed by global architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) that would retrofit an existing 1980s office block in London is moving forward following approval from the City of London Planning & Transportation Committee.

The project, located at 81 Newgate Street, includes a "deep retrofit" of the existing structure that will reposition the building as a "sustainable, mixed-use building that is embedded in the wider public life of the City as a new gateway destination into London’s ‘Culture Mile,'" the architects write.

In a press release announcing the project, John Bushell, Design KPF Principal explains, “81 Newgate Street develops a number of reuse and transformation themes that KPF has been working on for a long time, from the World Bank in Washington DC, completed in 1996, to more recent projects in London, such as Unilever House, South Bank Tower and a collection of projects in Covent Garden." Bushell adds, "The mixture of reuse and invention generates ...