Leman Street Hotel Submitted for Planning
David Miller Architects have just submitted a planning application for a new 23 storey tower hotel within the Aldgate Masterplan and the City Fringe regeneration zone. Developed with their client Pinehill Capital S.A., the 251 room hotel will be part of a commercial hub providing new, high quality amenities for the area.
The proposal is a slender tower, which responds to the site’s modest footprint of 32m x 16m, with a reduced palette of materials selected to emphasise the clean lines of the form. The tower has two long façades expressed as curved glass shields wrapped around the concrete structure; the shields are peeled back to reveal stone clad ‘bookends’.
DMA and planning consultants Barton Willmore have worked closely with Tower Hamlets’ planners and the GLA to develop a proposal that maximises the active street frontage. A new public pedestrian route has been introduced, passing through the centre of the building allowing the hotel lobby, cafe and bar to open out on four sides of the ground floor. The hotel restaurant has been introduced at first floor level so as to overlook and further animate the public realm.
