Citizen M Tower of London

Location: 40 Trinity Square, London EC3N 4DJ

Client: citizenM

Scale: 400-room flagship hotel

Team: Sheppard Robson, Polcom Modular

Brief

citizenM wanted to turn an existing office consent opposite the Tower of London into a flagship hotel, built using Polcom modular technology.

The site was highly constrained. London Underground partly owned it and held rights to the airspace above. It lies within five conservation areas, next to the scheduled Tower of London wall, inside several protected views of the Tower and within the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Response

Working with Sheppard Robson and citizenM, we kept the consented massing and adapted it to citizenM’s modern design and the modular system. The design responds to the townscape of Trinity Square and its historic buildings.

English Heritage and the Tower of London were consulted throughout, and the design addressed local stakeholders’ concerns. A complex basement includes two lifts that connect directly to Tower Hill tube station.

Our role

We acted as design manager, coordinating the modular design with the agreement with London Underground and the heritage requirements of the site.

Outcome

At the time, this was the largest modular building under construction in the UK and one of the first to pass through all the required approval bodies, built above a working tube station.

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