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An enormous fire has devastated a four-storey office building on Tabernacle Street in London. The fire service was called to the blaze at the office space, and the restaurant below, at around 4.30 on ...
Fire hits Tabernacle offices
The land formerly occupied by the Middlesex Hospital in London’s Fitzrovia is to be placed on the market. The 12,000 square metre site has stood unused for over two years, since the hospital was ...
Kaupthing sells London hospital site
Walkie-Talkie back on again? | 27 February 2010
Land Securities are said to be reconsidering plans to start work on their 500-foot London skyscraper, known as the Walkie-Talkie. The project – in common with many other new developments – ...
Walkie-Talkie back on again?
The new development at Two Kingdom Street in Paddington has effectively been completed. The scheme is a joint venture between international real estate group Quinlan Private, property development and ...
Paddington Central's Two Kingdom Street finished
Land Sec invests in recovery | 17 January 2010
Land Securities, the largest property developer in Europe, has confirmed it will be making a series of major new investments in order to take advantage of the forecast pickup in the London office spac ...
Land Sec invests in recovery
City insiders have warned that the 50 percent tax levied on bankers’ bonuses is likely to lead to an exodus of talent from London. JP Morgan is said to be one of the banks forced to reconsider w ...
Bonus tax may spell end for new JP Morgan building
Renzo Piano’s bold new development at London's Central St Giles is almost complete, with the last two cranes still on site scheduled to be removed before the Christmas shut down on 24th December ...
Green... orange... yellow office space nears completion
A new initiative has been launched to publicise 21,000 square feet of grade A office space along the riverside at London's 6 Mitre Passage. The project, named ‘Destination Greenwich’, has ...
Starting gun fires on Olympic offices
Make Architects have been chosen by property development and investment company Hammerson to design a new scheme for a 77,500 square-foot site on London Wall, on which they signed an option agreement ...
Make to design new Hammerson development
Within the next few days Canary Wharf’s HSBC tower will change hands for the third time in only two years. Spanish property company Metrovacesa purchased the tower for a staggering £1.1 bi ...
Pension fund to buy HSBC tower outright