Work is set to start this month on a six-storey building in Shoreditch designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects after the client replaced its original architect, Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY).

BGY won consent for a timber-framed building on the site of a former warehouse in 2017 for the coworking space operator, The Office Group (TOG). BGY refurbished the warehouse for TOG in 2013.

But the practice was later dropped from the rebuild because TOG felt cross-laminated timber specialist Waugh Thistleton could deliver a better CLT building, BD understands.

While Waugh Thistleton has not submitted a replacement planning application to Hackney council, it has amended Buckley Gray Yeoman’s scheme through a series of section 73 applications.

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