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London Skyscraper Proposed in Canary Wharf with Illuminated Spire  

16 July 2021 | London, United Kingdom
The proposed 57-story residential building at 17 Admirals Way would deliver 495 homes. Image credit: Far East Consortium International Limited
The proposed 57-story residential building at 17 Admirals Way would deliver 495 homes. Image credit: Far East Consortium International Limited

A 225-meter residential building has been proposed for a South Quay waterside site in London’s Canary Wharf.

If approved, the existing six-story office building built in the 1980s would be demolished and replaced with a 57-story residential building at 17 Admirals Way that would deliver 495 units, 125 earmarked as affordable homes.

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The ground floor level would include 296 square meters of retail and a pocket park. The fifth floor would house a double-height open-air terrace.

Designed by Maccreanor Lavington, the bronze-clad building will feature a crown decorated with a thin spire which will light up at night.

The tower will join the cluster of tall buildings to the north at the Canary Wharf Estate, behind César Pelli’s One Canada Square (235 meters) and Squire & Partners’ Pinnacle (234 meters).

The project’s developer, Far East Consortium, bought the 4,500-square-meter site in 2020 for £28.25 million. (US$ 38.88 million).

For more on this story, go to Architect’s Journal.