In pictures: Groupwork’s Greville Street

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Groupwork creates a diaphonous new skin for 1970s office block that playfully recalls earlier structures on same site

Groupwork has completed the refurbishment and remodelling of a 1970s office building in Hatton Garden.

During the late 1960s, eight terraced buildings on the site, ranging from 50 to 200 years old, were acquired and subsequently demolished to make way for a single office building, completed in 1970. The Greville Street shopfronts were replaced by ribboned windows and blind brickwork, traversing the street’s varying levels, while the buildings on Bleeding Heart Yard gave way to a car park.

In 2018, Seaforth Land acquired the site after the previous owner had faced setbacks with two unsuccessful planning applications for an additional floor.

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