Adjaye plans for Shoreditch office spark outcry

By 2018-08-20T06:00:00

David Adjaye 118 Curtain Road CGI

5,500 sign petition to stop project

A project designed by David Adjaye for a site just a block away from his successful Rivington Place gallery in Shoreditch has triggered a campaign to try and derail it.

Adjaye was appointed in 2015 to develop proposals to turn a derelict post-war warehouse on the busy Curtain Road into offices by adding three storeys.

The practice submitted a planning application to Hackney council earlier this year for the six-storey office block.

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