British Land Plan West End Towers

British Land Plan West End Towers

British Land are due to officially propose their new plans for the North East Quandrant of the Regents Place development in NW1 in Camden next month.

Located near to one of the central transport hubs of the West End - Euston Station, the scheme designed by Wilkinson Eyre features a number of buildings including an 18 floor, 32,000 square metre office one and a Munkenbeck and Marshall designed residential tower of 25 floors.

The design of the office complex features blue glass with vertical blue cladding lines running up it. The main office tower is separated from two lower-rise sections by atriums and terminates in shard-like peak.

Sources close to the project speaking to Skyscrapernews have described it as "three parallel floorplates with two atriums between and some nice sloping facetted facades." Further depth is added to the design thanks to "playing games with different depths of louvres and shading strategies."

British Land were previously in partnership with Crown Estates on this development and had drawn up an exclusively office based plan with less density and height. Since then they have bought out Crown Estates and are now looking to up the scale of what is their largest holding in the West End.

British Land are most active right now in the City of London and its fringe with major developments including Ropemaker Place and the Leadenhall Building in the pipeline.

This development shows a diversification of their bullish attitude away from just the City to looking west, something confirmed by City financial sources who went on a British Land tour last week and spoke of the confidence that the developer has in profitably exploiting this property cycle.

It's the first development of this scale to have been planned for some time in the area, the last true office tower built was the Euston Tower in the 1970s and plans for a cluster were soon quashed by a mixture of the economic conditions and bad design.

The area around Regents Place has previously had 20 years of lower rise development building out rather than up as the tall stuff has moved more to the City and Canary Wharf with Paddington the only exception in the West End.

Whether the Camden give the thumbs up for British Land's plans remain to be seen but they are unlikely to have redone their plans this much without first having gone into deep consultations with the council.

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