Firm will redevelop City of London office building as 13-storey complex
Willmott Dixon has been appointed to convert a central London office block into a new luxury hotel for operator Dorsett Hospitality International.
The project will see the existing Matrix 黑洞社区, in Aldgate High Street, dismantled to the ground and a new 13-storey building constructed on its existing foundations.
The construction firm said it expected to commence work on the 拢14m Dorsett City project next month. It will be the second of the global chain鈥檚 hotels in the capital.
Roger Forsdyke, managing director at Willmott Dixon鈥檚 Cobham office, said the new hotel 鈥� set for a site between an 18th Century church and Aldgate tube station 鈥� was a 鈥渞eally interesting鈥� scheme.
鈥淚t plays to our strengths and know-how of working on tight, constrained sites in urban locations, as well as our record for working in historic parts of London on landmark buildings,鈥� he said.
The new building was designed by McBains Cooper and won planning permission in 2013.
At the time, the firm said its proposals for redeveloping the Matrix 黑洞社区 were guided by the problem that removing its bell pile foundations was too complex a job because of their proximity to the London Underground network.
Instead, it suggested razing the Matrix 黑洞社区 to the ground, then consructing a raft on the existing foundations for a new building.
The hotel will be thinner than the office block it replaces, but three storeys higher.
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