1569 - Holborn Viaduct

Camden

A new 320,000 sqft 16-storey office building situated in the heart of the City, bound by the Viaduct, Farringdon Street and Thameslink railway.

Key Features:

• A number of constraints have to be negotiated as part of the works including a listed Gatehouse, Central Line tunnels and City Thameslink station.
• Works includes demolition of a number of existing buildings.
• Complex sites with several neighbouring assets including Central Line Tunnels, Thameslink railway and station, Listed Gatehouse, Listed Viaduct structure and sensitive cast iron bridges, Thames Water sewers and a live road running through the site and an additional tunnel beneath. The building is designed to minimise impact on the assets.
• Demolition of three existing buildings with movement monitoring to surrounding assets.
• Construction of new double basement each with mezzanines and fourteen storeys above Farringdon Street.
• Justification and reuse of existing piled foundations.

Client: Royal London Asset ManagementArchitect: PLP Architecture

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People:
Tom Steel
James Mumford