Tall & Urban News

The Lambeth Council has approved plans for a two-tower hotel building submitted by Hopkins Architects at Albert Embankment in Vauxhall, south-west London. 

This latest in a recent flurry of proposals for the Thameside site would include 872 rooms within a 26- and 29-story tower, linked by a four-story podium.

The scheme also includes office space, which would be inside a retrofitted and extended warehouse building called Vintage House. 

The 0.19-hectare site sits opposite Albert Embankment Gardens and includes a Texaco petrol station, which would be demolished, as well as Vintage House and car parking space. It is around 40 meters from the River Thames and sits north of the Vauxhall and Nine Elms tower cluster and south of Lambeth Palace and Lambeth Bridge.

The new proposal replaces Jestico + Whiles’ plan for a 660-bed hotel scheme on the site, which was approved in August 2020, which was an update on a previous submission for a residential building. 

For more on this story, go to Architects' Journal.