20 Ropemaker Street Offices, City of London Building Development, Architect, Architecture Images
20 Ropemaker Street Offices in London
Commercial Tower on Finsbury Pavement Building Development, UK – design by Make, architects
7 Dec 2017
20 Ropemaker Street Offices
Architects: Make
Location: 20 Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9AR, UK
Planning consent granted to 20 Ropemaker Street

Last night the Borough of Islington unanimously voted to grant consent for a new commercial tower development marking the corner of Ropemaker Street and Finsbury Pavement.

The 27-storey scheme, designed by Make Architects for Old Park Lane Management Ltd with Development Manager CORE, is indicative of a changing culture in commercial offices, with a focus to create dynamic environments that foster creativity, collaboration and connection among occupiers.
415,000sq ft of Grade A, BREEAM ?Excellent? office space will be created across 23 storeys, along with dedicated SME / affordable work space to fill a gap in the market created by the ongoing regeneration in the area, and ground floor retail. The building steps up to 128m at its tallest point and will provide a ?full stop? to the cluster of towers that has developed around the Finsbury Pavement and Ropemaker areas.
The building features a series of stepped slices that protrude forward and recess back, reducing the mass and defining the bays and the building silhouette. With the dimensions shifting both vertically and horizontally, a range ...