Top two storeys of 2005 building to be extended and facades overhauled
JP Morgan £60m plan to refurbish and extend an office building near the Barbican have been submitted to the City of London.
The nine-storey office building at 140 Aldersgate was completed in 2005 and designed by Sidell Gibson Architects.
JP Morgan’s asset management business is leading the redevelopment and has appointed architect Gensler to the job whose proposals will retain the structure of the building, extend its top two storeys, overhaul its facades and upgrade its thermal performance.
The project team includes Turner & Townsend as project manager, sister firm T&T Alinea on costs, DP9 on planning, Buro Happold on structures, Gardiner & Theobald as principal designer, Arup on facades, Sweco on MEP and Gustafson Porter + Bowman as landscape architect.
The job is likely to finish towards the end of 2028 with existing tenants due to move out in the first quarter of next year.
Meanwhile, bids for JP Morgan’s £500m redevelopment of One Spitalfields, built in 2005, have been sent back by Bovis, Mace and Multiplex. Tenders were returned last week with a winner due by the end of the month.
JP Morgan billing the scheme as a refurbishment with some new build. Plans by architect Foster & Partners, which drew up the 2005 scheme, will retain and extend the current office building to provide 870,000sq ft of office and retail space, along with 70,000sq ft of new terracing.
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