Scheme at 133 Houndsditch to be practice’s first high-rise project in Square Mile
David Chipperfield Architects is working on plans to demolish the former headquarters of Deutsche Bank in the City of London and replace it with a 22-storey office tower.
The scheme, located on a 0.42ha site at 133 Houndsditch on the eastern edge of the Square Mile’s main tower cluster, would be the firm’s first high-rise project in the City.
Designed for developer Platform, it is currently at consultation stage with more detailed plans expected to be outlined this summer ahead of a full planning application later this year.
Others working on the team so far include planning consultant DP9, cultural consultant Things Made Public and engagement consultant Kanda.
Images included in consultation documents show a stepped building consisting of three main volumes with large roof terraces and a cream-coloured facade featuring Chipperfield’s trademark aesthetic of large windows set within an ordered, rectilinear grid.
The scheme would be all-electric and contain around 46,000sq m of office space and 1,220sq m of flexible retail space, along with cycle parking and some landscape improvements at street level. Construction would retain the site’s existing foundations.
The existing building was designed by GMW Architects and built as the head office of Deutsche Bank in 1991. The latter moved out of the six-storey building in the late 1990s to 75 London Wall, which is now being refurbished and extended by Multiplex under plans by Orms with Deutsche Bank having moved again to 21 Moorfields last year.
The site sits next door to 115 - 123 Houndsditch, which is currently being redeveloped as a 24-storey office tower designed by AHMM, known as the Dovetail Building, which will also be built by Multiplex, and is a short walk from taller buildings in the City cluster including the Gherkin and 22 Bishopsgate.
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