8 NEWS RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Tallest tower completes in ‘tech city’
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Construction has completed on the Atlas Building, the tallest tower in London’s ‘tech city’ district. Delivered by Design Delivery Unit, with a concept design by Make, the 40-storey residential tower and adjacent 10-storey commercial building sits on a prominent site on City Road, near Old Street Station.
The tower delivers 302 apartments with leisure and spa facilities and basement parking. The commercial building is occupied by WeWork and provides access to three roof terraces, with external green walls, over 35 per cent of the footprint is new public realm; with a landscaped piazza of shops and cafes created between the two
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buildings. This provides a new pedestrian link between City Road and East Road. The architecture responds to the building’s urban context, it also looks to maximise the potential of the site and location. The concept design is “simple,” said the architects: “A series of 12 vertical blades articulate the elevations and work together to compose the tower’s facade.” The Atlas building has a cantilevered structure due to the below ground constraints of the underground and Thameslink lines, which cross at the southern tip of the site. According to the architects, this discovery at planning stage changed the concept for the structural
strategy, resulting in the creation of a new superstructure design to “prevent the building from twisting and leaning.” “Impacting upon all consented internal layouts, large shear walls had to be introduced and the core redesigned with column locations and sizes altered.” While the facade concept was maintained, it was “carefully deconstructed and redrawn to try to suit the new layouts, with the original architectural language safeguarded.” The delivered tower “tries to respect the original design intent, to create a stunning addition to the London skyline and contributes to the regeneration of this part of the capital,” said Design Delivery Unit.
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