Work gearing up to start on KPF east London towers

The project team is being assembled for a high-rise scheme by KPF in the Shoreditch area of east London.

The One Crown Place project – which won planning permission from Hackney council in July last year – comprises office and residential use spread across a cluster of buildings including two towers, one of 29 storeys and a second of 33.

It is being developed by Malaysian investor AlloyMtd, which bought the land in June 2013.

AlloyMtd Group president and chief executive Dato Azmil Khalid said at the time of planning that the scheme would bring “positive benefits” to the area.

It will include 13,000sq m of office space and nearly 250 homes and has a development value of £450 million.

CBRE is acting for the client on the project, while AKT II is structural engineer. Gardiner & Theobald has recently replaced Aecom as QS while Shard builder Mace is being lined up to carry out construction work.