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Chipperfield’s controversial Chinese Embassy plans re-submitted

By 2024-08-16T03:00:00

Chipperfield Chinese Embassy 2

Source: David Chipperfield Architects

Former Royal Mint site is opposite a UNESCO world heritage site

Controversial David Chipperfield-designed proposals for a new Chinese Embassy next to the Tower of London, previously vetoed by local planners partly on security grounds, have been resubmitted.

The country’s UK embassy has submitted a fresh planning application to the east London borough of Tower Hamlets for the ‘comprehensive redevelopment’ of the former site of the Royal Mint.

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