Location: No.1 Kingsway, London
Client: UK & European Investments Ltd
Contract Value: £38m
Crown House No.1 Kingsway, lies adjacent to Covent Garden & Holborn, & is within the Covent Garden Conservation Area. The original buildings form part of the historic Kingsway axis, one of the few 19th centaury ‘boulevards constructed in London. It is a mixed development of 8 floors of modern open plan office accommodation, street level retail units & 7 high quality duplex apartments at roof level, which have their own landscaped courtyard.
Planning permission was granted in December 2007 for demolition of the existing buildings behind the original retained facades to Kingsway & the Aldwych. The consent includes new high quality brick & reconstituted stone facades to the remaining facades on Drury Lane & Kean Street which match the surrounding architectural theme of original elevations & allow the building to fit within the urban character of the area. .