AHMM scales back plans for IBM building makeover

By Jim Dunton2021-02-09T06:00:00

Source: Secchi Smith

Practice tables ‘sensitive’ restoration and upgrade after brutalist South Bank offices get grade II listing

AHMM has reworked its plans to upgrade Denys Lasdun’s IBM building on London’s South Bank for the second time in a year after the brutalist block won a grade II listing from Historic England.

The practice’s original proposals for the office complex, completed in 1983, were floated early last year and envisaged the creation of an extra 20,000sq m of space through the addition of two new storeys.

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