UK: Developer Hub has commissioned architects AHMM to draw up plans for a 35-storey coliving project on Cranwood Street, Shoreditch, east London.
The 500-unit Finsgate House scheme would replace a five-storey 1980s office building in an emerging high-rise cluster close to Old Street roundabout.
It would also include an adjacent seven-storey office building containing around 6,000 square metres of office space.
Hub has carried out two rounds of public consultation on the scheme and filed technical documents to Hackney council ahead of the submission of a full planning application later this year. Demolition of the site’s existing office complex is scheduled to start next year with the development anticipated to complete by 2030.
The residential component of the scheme would contain up to 22,000 square metres of coliving floorspace with retail or community space on the ground floor and amenity space including cycle parking and end-of-trip facilities.
The tower’s shared spaces would include kitchens, laundrettes, a cinema, coworking spaces and shared communal living areas located throughout the building.
Hub is also working with AHMM on plans to convert a 1950s office block next to the Barbican, in the City of London, into 174 coliving units. Approved last year, the Beech Street scheme has been designed to mimic the Barbican complex with round arched roofs.
Highlights:
• Developer Hub has commissioned architects AHMM to draw up plans for a 35-storey coliving project on Cranwood Street, Shoreditch, east London
• The 500-unit Finsgate House scheme would replace a five-storey 1980s office building in an emerging high-rise cluster close to Old Street roundabout
• Hub is also working with AHMM on plans to convert a 1950s office block next to the Barbican, in the City of London, into 174 coliving units
