Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Redesign Doon St

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Redesign Doon St

Coin Street Community Builders have had their tower planned for Doon Street redesigned following complaints about the height and design of it, falling victim like many other developers to a trend of downscaling tall residential buildings in London.

Worked on by architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands it was previously 168 metres tall, had 47 floors and 355 apartments within. With four floors sliced off it will now be only 140 metres tall, a relatively minor height reduction but one that should make it almost invisible from vantage points such as Somerset House, 43 floors and 329 apartments.

The cumulative effect of this trend over similarly sized developments throughout central London is reducing the potential housing stock by several hundred apartments per year every year at a time when they are all desparately needed.

The planned community centre and facilities on the lower floors of the tower remain including a new headquarters for the Rambert Dance Centre, two swimming pools, a gym, and four sports halls.

The general massing remains the same but one of the major design changes has been the change in cladding that has gone from the previous shimmering stainless steel look, a technique used successfully in 5 Aldermanbury Square, to a mixture of white stone and bronze that creates a somewhat messy appearance and a clearer visual demarcation between each section of the building.

The whole point of the residential tower above the lower-rise podium building was to create enough revenue to pay for improvements to the area and community facilities which were unable to get the funding elsewhere. Coin Street Community Builders also saved the OXO Tower in the 1980s when it was neglected, falling to pieces, and none of the heritage bodies around would move a muscle.

As well as being set upon for the height of the proposal and the visual impact it would have had, the Doon Street Tower has been extensively attacked by English Heritage and Conservative politicians in a classic strawman approach by misrepresenting it.

Branded as "flats for rich people", unlike Beetham's London tower or the Pan Peninsula towers at Canary Wharf, Coin Street Community Builders are exactly what they say on the tin - a community organisation run not for profit.

Whether they can get their own way and go-ahead with the project this time remains to be seen as Southwark remains unenthusiastic about tall buildings, but the height reduction should serve to make the complaints of the main critic, English Heritage, go away.

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Coin Street Community Builders have had their tower planned for Doon Street redesigned following complaints about the height and design of it, falling victim like many other developers to a trend of downscaling tall residential buildings in London.

Worked on by architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands it was previously 168 metres tall, had 47 floors and 355 apartments within. With four floors sliced off it will now be only 140 metres tall, a relatively minor height reduction but one that should make it almost invisible from vantage points such as Somerset House, 43 floors and 329 apartments.

The cumulative effect of this trend over similarly sized developments throughout central London is reducing the potential housing stock by several hundred apartments per year every year at a time when they are all desparately needed.charms
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