Knight Dragon to rework Greenwich Peninsula centrepiece
Hong Kong developer Knight Dragon has confirmed it has removed an elaborate £1bn glass building from the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan.
It comes after plans presented at a public consultation last August excluded the glass complex designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The tower comprised 800 apartments, offices, restaurants, shops and a hotel as the centrepiece of the £8.4bn development.
Hong Kong developer Knight Dragon has confirmed it has removed an elaborate £1bn glass building from the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan.
It comes after plans presented at a public consultation last August excluded the glass complex designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The tower comprised 800 apartments, offices, restaurants, shops and a hotel as the centrepiece of the £8.4bn development.
The partners have announced that reworked plans for Peninsula Place will not include the centrepiece in response to the reworked masterplan, challenges in retail and approval of the Silvertown Tunnel and new access points.
In a joint statement from Knight Dragon and Santiago Calatrava, a spokesman said: “The development at Greenwich Peninsula is in a very different place to where it was five years ago.
“Recent external factors, including the emerging new masterplan, the retail environment, the approval of the Silvertown Tunnel and the reconfiguration of the pedestrian access to the existing transport hub, have brought about the need to revisit the central neighbourhood of Greenwich Peninsula.”
Knight Dragon is working on an alternative concept for the site without the architect. The parties said they will be keen to work together in the future.
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