Patty Hopkins has spoken up for one of her practice’s key projects which is facing a three-storey extension in a Squires-designed proposal that has sparked anger.

The high-tech building, 22 Shad Thames, was designed by Michael Hopkins & Partners and built between 1989-91 as a showroom for the silversmith and cutlery designer David Mellor who was closely involved in the project.

An application made by Squire & Partners – the practice founded by their contemporary Michael Squire – would add three storeys to the five-storey building. It would also add an eight-storey side extension entirely filling in a gap left between the building and its neighbour so that passers-by on Shad Thames can see through to St Saviour’s Dock.

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