Studio RHE has won planning to convert a 1.5-acre underground bunker which is said to have been used by spies into workspace for the creative industries.

The 58,000sq ft scheme will be created beneath Allies & Morrison’s 37-storey Keybridge apartment building near Vauxhall gyratory.

Built on the site of a 15-storey brutalist BT telephone exchange on South Lambeth Road – dubbed forbidding by Pevsner – this is set to be the UK’s tallest residential brick tower when it completes.

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