Campaign group Save Britain’s Heritage has written to Islington Council objecting to AHMM’s proposals to transform a well-known post-modern office development.

Under plans submitted by US real estate firm Tishman Speyer, the early 1990s Angel Square development would be stripped of all its current external features – inclduding its Italianate campanile-style clock tower.

Only the five-storey core frame of the main building, formally named 1 Torrens Street, would be retained and used for a “glass-focused” makeover that would add new storeys and increase office floorspace by around 7,000 sq m.

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