C20 slams council’s decision to approve Fosters’ 22-storey London Bridge block

By Tom Lowe2022-09-16T06:00:00

Colechuch House CIT and Foster + Partners new external cgi (002)

Scheme will see brutalist 1960s building flattened to make way for “London’s first net zero office”

The Twentieth Century society has slammed Southwark council’s decision to approve Foster & Partners’ plans to flatten a 1960s brutalist block opposite the Shard and replace it with a newbuild office scheme.

C20 said the move, which was agreed unanimously by councillors yesterday evening, showed a “lack of imagination about what could be done with the existing building”.

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