Renzo Piano aims to bring 'heart and soul' into central London's 'forgotten' St Giles

Built on a 0.7ha site between Oxford Street and Covent Garden, the scheme is formed of three buildings with '13 irregularly orientated, individually coloured ceramic & glass facades'.

Renzo Piano said: 'The architectural challenge was to create a development that brings heart and soul into a forgotten part of central London's urban fabric.

'A place that, by adding levitated, articulated and colourful buildings, physically expresses the people-focused and socially responsible credentials of modern corporate tenants.'

London Mayor Ken Livingstone hopes the building – for joint developers Legal & General and Mitsubishi Estate Company – will be the catalyst for Terry Farrell's masterplan for the currently over-congested and down-at-heel thoroughfare.

Piano's scheme, which includes 109 residential units, retail units, restaurants, cafés and a new public piazza, is due for completion in 2009.

 

Internal piazza

Lobby

Roof terrace

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